New Trends in the Use of Microorganisms for Wastewater Treatment and Reuse
A special issue of Microorganisms (ISSN 2076-2607). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Microbiology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2024 | Viewed by 196
Special Issue Editor
Interests: development of technologies for sustainable management of organic waste; biotechnological and ecotechnological approaches for agro-industrial wastewater treatment; sustainable water resources management
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Water pollution is already a major threat to the environment. Wastewater is generated from many different sources and represents thousands of tons of organic and inorganic pollutants that must be removed after and an effluent can be safely returned to the water cycle, or directly reused. Several microbes can be used for wastewater treatment. These microorganisms perform a vital role in the breakdown and removal of nutrients (nitrogen, phosphorous, etc.), organic matter (fats, proteins, etc.), and toxicants (antibiotics, pesticides, etc.) in wastewaters. Hence, wastewater treatment facilities are designed to allow all these natural bioprocesses to occur under controlled conditions. Microorganisms and their enzymes’ bioremediation play an important role in these systems. Thus, the application of different microorganisms and/or the increasing in their metabolic activity for water detoxification is a pressing problem at present. Therefore, this Special Issue is focused on the most up-to-date research (original articles, short communications, and reviews) related but not limited to microbes applications in wastewater treatment, identification and classification of major microbial species involved in wastewater treatment, recombinant technology to increase their bio-efficacy and nontoxic activity, analysis of particular strains responsible for removing pollutants, eco/bio-technological applications of microorganisms for water remediation, identification and characterization of novel degrading metabolic pathways, development of novel microbial-based treatment methods, and development of hybrid bioremediation systems coupling chemical and biological strategies.
Dr. Leonardo Martín Pérez
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- wastewater treatment
- toxic compounds
- bioremediation
- biological processes
- degradation pathways
- green biotechnology
- environmental engineering
