Special Issue "Advanced Technology in Heavy Metal Removal and Groundwater Remediation"

Dear Colleagues,

Urbanization and industrialisation rapidly increase the discharge of heavy metals into the natural environment. The disposal of heavy metals into receiving environments, including water and soil, remains a troubling global environmental issue as a result of their toxicity, non-biodegradability and even bio-enrichment ability through the food chain. Various remediation technologies (e.g., adsorption, reduction or oxidation) have been developed worldwide to deal with the contaminated water, soil, and aquifers or groundwater. It is expected that the ecological risks associated with heavy metal pollution can be mitigated or avoided by efficiently removing metals or altering the chemical state of heavy metals from the environmental conditions.

This Special Issue aims to advance the current technologies for heavy metal removal and groundwater remediation in order to achieve both fundamental scientific science and practical technologies. We are pleased to receive submissions of high-quality, original, and previously unpublished research on the theory, practice, and application of new technologies to advance heavy metal removal and groundwater remediation, on but not limited to the following topics or other relevant ones:

• Nanotechnologies;
• Chemical/biological technologies;
• Phytoremediation;
• Permeable reactive barriers (PRBs);
• Modelling for the fate of heavy metals in the environment;
• Bioavailability of heavy metals.

Dr. Zhigang Yu
Dr. Liang Hu
Dr. Qi Zhang
Guest Editors

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• heavy metal
• water treatment
• groundwater remediation
• soil remediation
• adsorption
• nanomaterials
• adsorbents
• biochar
• bioavailability
• bioaccumulation
• nano zero-valent iron