Spatiotemporal Variability, Identification, and Control Technologies of Pollutants in Surface Water
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Water Quality and Contamination".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 August 2024) | Viewed by 719
Special Issue Editors
Interests: adsorption; advanced oxidation technology; coagulation; capacitive deionization; surface/interface chemistry; heterogeneous catalysts (metals); porous frameworks; POP degradation; value-added ion separation and purification
Interests: environmental chemistry; water quality assessment and pollution sources; risk assessment; geochemistry; source identification; environmental monitoring
Interests: stabilization mechanism and separation technique of heterogenous mixture; water pollution elimination; mass transportation in finite space; interface and surface
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Surface water is an extremely important source of fresh water. The quality of this water body is thus an essential issue for people living in the river basin. The Tibetan Plateau is called the “Water Tower of Asia”, and more than one third of the world population lives in the downstream watersheds of the rivers flowing from the Plateau. Currently, there are growing public concerns about the impacts of climate change and the potential effects of rapid economic development on the availability and quality of the water. Moreover, due to its harsh weather conditions, high elevation, and low accessibility, limited studies have focused on pollutant distributions and control in the Plateau region. In this context, gaining an in-depth understanding of pollution assessments and source apportionments in surface water, especially in the Plateau area, is of great importance for proposing suitable strategies of local pollution control and ecological recovery. To the best of our knowledge, much research has made significant breakthroughs and contributions to pollution evaluation and control technologies in the surface water community.
This Special Issue aims to highlight the recent advances on pollution assessments and source apportionments with a multiscale perspective on numerical and theoretical developments, along with corresponding pollution control techniques towards surface water in low-to-high-altitude areas.
Potential topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Spatiotemporal variability and identification of organic/inorganic pollutants in the surface water;
- Response of aquatic ecosystem health status to water environmental factors in surface water;
- Adsorbent development and corresponding structure–performance correlations regarding the removal and recycling of inorganic matter (e.g., salt, heavy metals, etc.);
- Heterogenous catalyst fabrication and catalytic mechanisms from atomic/molecular perspectives for organic pollutant degradation via advanced oxidation techniques.
Dr. Jian Shen
Prof. Dr. Xiang Huang
Dr. Peng Shi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- pollution assessments
- source apportionments
- adsorption
- advanced oxidation techniques
- electro-capacitive deionization
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