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Innovative Technologies and Materials for Sustainable Wastewater Treatment and Resource Recovery

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Water Management".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 24 May 2024 | Viewed by 2265

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Md Nahid Pervez

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Department of Environmental and Sustainable Engineering, University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany, NY 12222, USA
Interests: wastewater treatment; resource recovery; sustainability; textile chemistry
Dr. Tao Jiang

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Department of Environmental and Sustainable Engineering, University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany, NY 12222, USA
Interests: environmental risks, toxicity, and remediation of emerging contaminants; water and wastewater treatment; waste management and valorization
Dr. Dongqi Wang

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Department of Municipal and Environmental Engineering, School of Water Resources and Hydro-Electric Engineering, Xi’an University of Technology, Xi’an, China
Interests: wastewater treatment, enhanced biological phosphorus removal, nutrient removal and recovery; environmental pollution and protection; environmental monitoring; water quality; biodiversity; microbial ecology; ecotoxicology; contaminants of emerging concern; biotechnology

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The wastewater treatment process has been widely employed as a crucial component of environmental sustainability, while the concept of resource recovery has emerged as a valuable process in contemporary times. Both domains, laboratory-scale research and industry, are of significant importance. This Special Issue focuses on utilizing novel advanced technologies and materials for wastewater treatment. These technologies can be biological, chemical, physical, and a combined integration of the three, and they include, but are not limited to, biodegradation, membrane separation, adsorption-integrated approaches, and catalytic processes. Additionally, biological and physicochemical methods, such as anaerobic digestion and pressure-driven membrane filtration, are explored for resource recovery, particularly the extraction of valuable compounds from wastewater streams. The design of this Special Issue scheme was motivated by the existing research gaps surrounding the application of advanced technologies and materials in the treatment of wastewater and resource recovery. This Special Issue aims to address these current research gaps within the framework of the circular economy.

The primary subjects encompass the entirety of the value chain pertaining to sustainable wastewater treatment and resource recovery, including, but not limited to, the following:

  1. Treatment of hazardous pollutants from wastewater, such as dyes, heavy metals, per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), microplastics, and personal care products;
  2. Recovery of resources from wastewater streams, including nitrogen, phosphorus, ammonia, volatile fatty acids (VFAs), rare earth metals, etc.;
  3. Integration of novel physical, chemical, and biological technologies;
  4. Life cycle assessments (LCA) to evaluate the environmental impacts of the emerging technologies and materials;
  5. Techno-economic analyses to assess the economic viability and feasibility of implementing these technologies and materials.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Md Nahid Pervez
Dr. Tao Jiang
Dr. Dongqi Wang
Guest Editors

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • wastewater treatment
  • resource recovery
  • innovative technologies
  • integrated approaches
  • novel materials
  • circular economy

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Use of the Box–Behnken Experimental Design for the Optimization of Orange II (Acid Orange 7) Adsorption on Aloe vera
by María Isabel Aguilar, Mercedes Lloréns, Juan Francisco Ortuño, Víctor Francisco Meseguer, Ana Belén Pérez-Marín and Alejandro Cases
Sustainability 2023, 15(22), 15727; https://doi.org/10.3390/su152215727 - 08 Nov 2023
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Industrial wastewater effluents containing dyes are considered to pollute and be harmful to the environment. Among the various removal techniques, the adsorption process using low-cost adsorbents has been successfully used to remove pollutants. In this work, Aloe vera leaves (AVs) have been used [...] Read more.
Industrial wastewater effluents containing dyes are considered to pollute and be harmful to the environment. Among the various removal techniques, the adsorption process using low-cost adsorbents has been successfully used to remove pollutants. In this work, Aloe vera leaves (AVs) have been used as adsorbent for the removal of Orange II (O-II). A three-level three-factor Box–Behnken factorial design, including three replicates of center points, was applied to investigate the main parameters affecting the biosorption of O-II dye in aqueous solutions by AVs. The selected parameters were adsorbent dose, initial dye concentration, and contact time. The Box–Behnken experiment design has given a satisfactory result for the optimization of the adsorption process. The obtained value of R2 (0.9993) shows that the quadratic response model adequately represents the relationship between each response and the chosen variables. The pH influences the adsorption capacity, obtaining at pH 2 the maximum adsorption capacity value. From the kinetic models studied, the one that best describes the adsorption of Orange II on Aloe vera is the Bangham model (ARE = 1.06%). The isotherm model that best represents the experimental data is the Toth model. The maximum adsorption capacity obtained by this model was 15.9 mg·g−1. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Innovative Technologies and Materials for Sustainable Wastewater Treatment and Resource Recovery)
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Impacts of Polylactic Acid Microplastics on Performance and Microbial Dynamics in Activated Sludge System
by Mengbo Huang, Dongqi Wang, Shengwei Zhang, Yuzhu Weng, Kailong Li, Renjie Huang, Yuan Guo, Chunbo Jiang, Zhe Wang, Hui Wang, Haiyu Meng, Yishan Lin, Mingliang Fang and Jiake Li
Sustainability 2023, 15(19), 14332; https://doi.org/10.3390/su151914332 - 28 Sep 2023
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A large number of microplastics (MPs) have been found in various stages of wastewater treatment plants, which may affect the functional microbial activity in activated sludge and lead to unstable pollutant removal performance. In this study, the effects of different concentrations of polylactic [...] Read more.
A large number of microplastics (MPs) have been found in various stages of wastewater treatment plants, which may affect the functional microbial activity in activated sludge and lead to unstable pollutant removal performance. In this study, the effects of different concentrations of polylactic acid microplastics (PLA MPs) on system performance, nitrification and phosphorus (P) removal activities, and extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) were evaluated. The results showed that under the same influent conditions, low concentrations (50 particles/(g TS)) of PLA MPs had no significant effect on effluent quality. The average removal efficiencies of chemical oxygen demand, phosphate, and ammonia were all above 80%, and the average removal efficiencies of total nitrogen remained above 70%. High concentrations (200 particles/(g TS)) of PLA MPs inhibited the activities of polyphosphate-accumulating organisms (PAOs) and nitrifying bacteria. The specific anaerobic P release rate decreased from 37.7 to 23.1 mg P/(g VSS·h), and the specific aerobic P uptake rate also significantly decreased. The specific ammonia oxidation rate decreased from 0.67 to 0.34 mg N/(g VSS·h), while the change in the specific nitrite oxidation rate was not significant. The dosing of PLA MPs decreased the total EPS and humic acid content. As the concentration of PLA MPs increased, microbial community diversity increased. The relative abundance of potential PAOs (i.e., Acinetobacter) increased from 0.08 to 12.57%, while the relative abundance of glycogen-accumulating organisms (i.e., Competibacter and Defluviicoccus) showed no significant changes, which would lead to improved P removal performance. The relative abundance of denitrifying bacteria (i.e., Pseudomonas) decreased from 95.43 to 58.98%, potentially contributing to the decline in denitrification performance. Full article
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