Advanced Biotechnologies and Bioprocesses for Sustainable Waste(water) Management
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Science and Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2023) | Viewed by 5137
Special Issue Editors
Interests: anammox; denitrification; anaerobic digestion; sludge fermentation; biological nitrogen removal; carbon neutrality
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2. Faculty of Environment and Life, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China
Interests: biological nutrients removal; municipal wastewater treatment; anammox; nitritation; partial denitrification; biofilm; resource and energy recovery
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Recent decades have witnessed rapid urbanization and population growth worldwide, bringing serious environmental issues regarding the huge amounts of wastes and wastewaters being produced, which pose a great threat to human health. Various methods, including physical, chemical, and biological, have been devised to manage those “wastes”; among these, much effort has been spent on biotechnologies that make use of microbes to degrade pollutants due to their relatively high economic advantage. However, the operation cost involved in these bioprocesses is still high and usually accompanied with byproduct generation. For example, the traditional nitrification/denitrification process that is widely applied for municipal wastewater treatment requires a substantial amount of energy for aerobic nitrification and external organics for denitrification; meanwhile, a large quantity of waste-activated sludge and greenhouse gases (e.g., CO2, N2O) are produced. More recently, the concept of carbon neutrality was proposed to cope with climate change, and many governments have set a clear schedule to achieve this goal. The management of the wastes and wastewaters should therefore be more cost-effective and environment-friendly with a great level of sustainability.
This Special Issue will focus on advanced biotechnologies and bioprocesses for sustainable waste(water) management. We welcome novel research and review manuscripts covering all related topics, including but not limited to the following:
- Innovative biotechnologies for wastewater treatment (e.g., anammox-based processes);
- New techniques for solid waste energy/resource recovery and management;
- Integrated process design, optimization, control, and scale-up studies;
- Greenhouse gas emission (e.g., N2O) and mitigation strategy;
- Sustainability and life cycle assessment (LCA).
Dr. Shenbin Cao
Dr. Rui Du
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- innovative biotechnologies for wastewater treatment (e.g., anammox-based processes)
- new techniques for solid waste energy/resource recovery and management
- integrated process design, optimization, control, and scale-up studies
- greenhouse gas emission (e.g., N2O) and mitigation strategy
- sustainability and life cycle assessment (LCA)
