Advances in Adsorption Processes for Sustainable Water Treatment
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Water Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2024 | Viewed by 378
Special Issue Editors
Interests: adsorption processes; photocatalysis,water/wastewater treatment; clay minerals; material synthesis and functionalization; characterization
Interests: adsorption processes; water/wastewater treatment; porous materials; nanocomposites; material synthesis; characterization
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The pollution of air, water, and soil is a result of industrial growth and rapid population growth. The uncontrolled discharge of various pollutants from homes and agricultural and industrial sources into lakes, rivers, seas, and groundwater can have detrimental effects on ecotoxicological conditions and pose a health concern. Pollutants including detergents, pesticides, dyes, drug residues, chromates, phosphates, heavy metals, phenols, and so on are not effectively removed with conventional wastewater treatments (i.e., membrane filtering, advanced oxidation process, biodegradation, etc.).
Therefore, numerous investigations have brought into focus adsorption for the removal of pollutants from water. The main advantages of adsorption are its low cost, simplicity, selectivity, fast removal, and high efficiency of removal of pollutants even from diluted aqueous solutions.
This Special Issue is devoted to new research and recent contributions on the various adsorbents and materials based on natural materials (in unmodified form or after modification or functionalization), composites, functional materials, waste of industry and agriculture (sawdust, citrus peels, nut shells, eggshells, fruit seeds, bones, coffee grounds, textile waste, etc.), green adsorbents, and nanomaterials in water and wastewater treatment via the principles of sustainable development. For this Special Issue, relevant topics include (but are not limited to) the following: case studies, the kinetics of adsorption, regeneration and recovery assessments, process design and mechanism analysis of removal using theoretical calculation methods, modeling, and simulation.
We would like to invite you to contribute original research and review papers on water/wastewater treatment and purification techniques and materials. We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Slavica S. Lazarević
Dr. Ivona Janković-Castvan
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- environmental remediation
- green chemistry in water treatment
- functionalization
- composite materials
- clay minerals
- adsorption mechanisms
- adsorption kinetics
- metal–organic frameworks (MOFs)
- renewable adsorbents
