New Technologies in Water Treatment and Water Reuse
A special issue of Resources (ISSN 2079-9276).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2022) | Viewed by 3733
Special Issue Editor
Interests: water treatment and reuse; advanced oxidation processes; adsorption; membrane filtration; machine-learning-based modeling of water treatment processes
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Dear Colleagues,
Water treatment is becoming of great importance at global scales due to climate-driven and/or anthropogenic impacts to both the quantity and quality of available water resources. As alternatives, water reuses such as treated wastewater, desalination, and rainwater harvesting have been increasingly applied for securing water resources.
Technical/functional progresses in treatment methods and materials as well as analytical instrumentation are required in order to mitigate the uncertainty of human health and environmenal safety related to water consumtion. Recent advances of data analysis techniques (e.g., neural networks, machine learning) have enabled us to better understand and predict the efficiencies of treatment processes and to integrate monitoring data with process control and optimization.
The aim of this Special Issue is to provide scientific knowledge on treatment techniques, and discoveries and applications of new materials for water treatment and reuse purposes. We welcome both research papers and technical notes, evaluating the treatability of recently developed technologies/processes covering the scope.
Studies may emphasize on: (i) state-of-the-art technologies and methodologies for secure water treatment; (ii) advanced materials to tackle the emering pollutants such as antibotics, antibiotic resistance genes, microplastics, etc.; and (iii) modeling approaches or machine learning techniques for prediction and control.
Dr. Seong-Nam Nam
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Water treatment and reuse
- Green technology
- Advanced oxidation processes (AOPs)
- Sunlight irradiation
- Catalytic oxidation
- Membrane filtration
- Desalination
- Rainwater harvesting
- Nanocomposite materials
- Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs)
- Dissolved organic matter (DOM)
- Contaminants of emerging concern (CECs)
- Antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs)
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