Advances in Water Pollution, Control and Treatment
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Science and Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2023) | Viewed by 7020
Special Issue Editors
Interests: environmental pollution control; soil and groundwater remediation; environment and climate
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Interests: chemical and biological technology for water and wastewater treatment
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
With the continuous development of industrial activities, an increasing number of pollutants are produced and discharged into the aquatic environment. The pollution in drinking water and wastewater, including conventional pollutants (e.g., fluoride ions, nitrate ions, pathogens, and heavy metals) and emerging contaminants (e.g., pharmaceuticals and personal care products, perfluorinated compounds, and microplastics), represent a major risk to the environment and health due to their wide distribution in water bodies and accumulation in nature. Nevertheless, conventional water treatment processes may no longer meet the requirements for the further improvement of water quality. The limited knowledge regarding the fate and degradation mechanism of emerging contaminants is another global challenge. Therefore, novel, robust, cost-effective, and environmentally friendly methods for water pollution control and treatment are necessary to supplement or replace the existing treatment processes and to address these challenges.
This Special Issue welcomes high-quality articles in the field of water and wastewater treatment, which utilize advanced approaches with a major focus on water pollution control. Fundamental and applied research papers covering multidisciplinary topics, as well as review papers with new perspectives will be considered. The development of advanced treatment technology, including physicochemical, membrane separation, advanced oxidation, and biological processes, and their combinations, which warrant further investigation in sustainable water treatment, is at the core of this Special Issue.
The scope of this Special Issue includes, but is not limited to, the following topics:
(i) Advanced detection methods of emerging contaminants;
(ii) Remediation technologies including, but not limited to, photocatalytic and bio-degradation, advanced oxidation, membrane separation, and other standalone and/or hybrid processes;
(iii) Molecular dynamics and simulations explaining the contaminant fate and degradation mechanism;
(iv) Costs and benefits analysis of pollutant removal processes and technologies;
(v) Reviews on the most effective practices.
Prof. Dr. Shan Zhao
Dr. Jia Wei
Dr. Xiujuan Chen
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- water and wastewater treatment
- pollution control
- environmental remediation
- pollutant fate and transport
- treatment process modeling
- environmental risk analysis
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