Biotechnological Innovations for Waste/Wastewater Treatment and Energy Generation: Challenges and Opportunities
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "B: Energy and Environment".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2025 | Viewed by 255
Special Issue Editor
Interests: environmental biotechnology; wastenvironmental biotechnology; waste and wastewater treatment; nutrient removal from municipal and industrial wastewater; aerobic granular sludge technology; bisphenol removal from wastewater; waste-to-energy technologies; microplastic; microbial fuel cells; molecular techniques; metagenome; metatranscriptome
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Dear Colleagues,
The management of waste and wastewater, as well as energy production, pose major challenges for the environment, health and the economy worldwide.
Biotechnologies offer innovative solutions that hold great promise for overcoming these challenges while creating opportunities for sustainable resource recovery, energy production and environment protection. The aim of this Special Issue of the international journal Energies (SCIE IF 3.2, CiteScore 5.5), entitled “Biotechnological Innovations for Waste/Wastewater Treatment and Energy Generation: Challenges and Opportunities”, is to address the challenges of waste and wastewater management and explore the opportunities presented by biotechnological advances, particularly in the field of energy generation. This Special Issue presents advanced biotechnologies covering a wide range of approaches, including waste-to-energy conversion, biogas and biohydrogen production or electricity generation in microbial fuel cells. These methods utilize the metabolic capabilities of microorganisms to degrade pollutants, including micropollutants, and to recover valuable resources from waste and wastewater streams. The topics of interest include studies on anaerobic digestion, the conversion of organic waste into biogas for energy production and the use of nutrient-rich wastewater for fertilization in agriculture. Papers can describe the applicability of feedstocks and energy yields and outline the next steps for the development of the technologies described. In addition, submissions are welcome that present bio-based materials and chemicals that can be synthesized from waste streams, reduce dependence on virgin resources and minimize the environmental impact.
We invite scientists to submit both original research and review articles. The selected contributions will undergo a peer-review process to ensure rapid and wide dissemination of the results.
We look forward to receiving your outstanding papers.
Prof. Dr. Agnieszka Cydzik-Kwiatkowska
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- waste-to-energy technologies
- wastewater treatment
- energy production
- resource recovery
- micropollutants
- anaerobic digestion
- environmental biotechnologies
- microbiome
- circular economy
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