Advances in the Analysis of Emerging Organic Contaminants
A special issue of Processes (ISSN 2227-9717). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental and Green Processes".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 January 2025 | Viewed by 1672
Special Issue Editors
Interests: emerging pollutant; toxicity; treatment techniques; wastewater
Interests: emerging pollutant; toxicity; treatment techniques; wastewater
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Emerging organic contaminants are chemically stable and bioaccumulative and pose serious safety threats to a range of species. There is great concern over water contamination due to these compounds, since they are not completely removed and/or degraded by conventional water and effluent treatment processes and may not be biodegradable. The uncontrolled discharge of such substances into the environment exceeds their self-purification capacity, even at trace concentrations, and contributes to the accumulation of some of these contaminants at different environmental levels, which can lead to potentially harmful effects on aquatic environments and human health. For this reason, there is a need to develop and/or test techniques to efficiently treat these compounds in aqueous media.
This Special Issue on “Advances in the Analysis of Emerging Organic Contaminants” seeks high-quality papers focusing on the most recent advances in technologies for the removal or degradation of emerging organic compounds in aqueous media.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Treatment processes using alternative, efficient, and low-cost methods;
- Development of materials from industrial by-products;
- Adsorption process, industrial and environmental integration, and application and modeling;
- Nanoadsorbent and nanocatalytic materials (e.g., silica, chitosan, graphene);
- Bioaccumulation, mobilization, biodegradation, and detoxification processes in phytoextraction.
Dr. Ana Paula Peron
Dr. Regiane Da Silva Gonzalez
Dr. Débora Cristina de Souza
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- emerging pollutants
- wastewater
- environmental safety
- water quality
- sustainable environment
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