Energy Recovery Potential from Wastewater through Anaerobic Treatment
A special issue of Fermentation (ISSN 2311-5637). This special issue belongs to the section "Industrial Fermentation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2024 | Viewed by 1248
Special Issue Editors
Interests: environmental microbiology; wastewater treatment; biological nutrient removal
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Wastewater is no longer viewed as waste but rather as a source of valuable resources, including clean water, renewable energy and nutrients. Reuse of wastewater for landscape and crop irrigation and indeed for domestic consumption is a widely accepted and growing practice to save water where water is in limited supply. Energy can be extracted from the organic matters in wastewater during anaerobic treatment to produce biogas, e.g., methane and hydrogen gases. Nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus in wastewater can also be recovered to produce fertilizers for sustainable agriculture production. Development of technologies such as complete anaerobic wastewater treatment technologies has the potential to achieve net energy production and resource recovery while meeting stringent effluent standards.
This Special Issue is focused on all the technologies that can be capable of resource recovery from any kind of wastewater sources. Special emphasis is devoted to the process control, optimatization, and development of novel anaerobic technologies for wastewater treatment and resource recovery from industry and municipal wastewater. We welcome contributions related, but not limited, to the following environmental research topics:
- Theories, models, and technologies for anaerobic wastewater treatment;
- Various high-value resources recovery from industrial and agricultural waste streams;
- Environmental materials for resources enrichment and recovery;
- Biogas production during anaerobic treatment process;
- Heat recovery from a wastewater treatment process;
- Wastewater reuse for argriculture irrgation.
Dr. Yuepeng Sun
Dr. Nirakar Pradhan
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- resource recovery
- wastewater treatment technologies
- anaerobic wastewater treatment
- biogas
- high-value resources
- anaerobic membrane bioreactors
- wastewater reuse
