Applications of Flocculants on Emerging Contaminants Removal and Resource Recovery in Wastewater Treatment
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Waste and Recycling".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2022) | Viewed by 309
Special Issue Editors
Interests: wastewater treatment; environmental biotechnology; resource recovery from wastewater; emerging contaminants; anaerobic digestion; solid waste management
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: wastewater treatment; resource recovery from wastes; environmental biotechnology
Interests: environmental biotechnology; flocculants; resource recovery; emerging contaminants; wastewater treatment; anaerobic digestion
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The application of flocculants in wastewater treatment has always been a research hotspot due to their many advantages, including high efficacy, cost effectiveness, and ease of operation. Through charge neutralization and interparticle bridging, flocculants can destabilize and remove inorganic/organic suspended pollutants, as well as bacterial suspensions in wastewater. However, their efficacy on emerging contaminants, which are a group of relatively low-concentration but high-toxicity pollutants in wastewater that cannot be effectively removed by conventional biological treatments, such as an activated sludge process, has not been thoroughly investigated. A more detailed understanding of the interaction between flocculants and emerging contaminants has not yet been obtained. Meanwhile, alongside the research spotlight of carbon neutrality, investigations of resource recovery from wastewater will increase. Flocculants may be a suitable application for the selective recovery of potential resources in wastewater. To achieve this goal, the interaction between flocculants and potential resources in wastewater must be extensively studied.
Therefore, this Special Issue will focus on application of flocculants on emerging contaminants removal and resource recovery in wastewater treatment and aims to collect studies of the following:
(1) Flocculants preparation and modification for wastewater treatment;
(2) Application of flocculants to remove emerging contaminants, e.g., microplastics, perfluoro octanoic acids, in wastewater;
(3) Application of flocculants to recycle and reuse resources from wastewater;
(4) Life cycle assessment of flocculants in wastewater treatment.
Original research papers or review papers on the latest research progress are looking forward.
Prof. Dr. Dongbo Wang
Dr. Qiuxiang Xu
Dr. Xuran Liu
Dr. Yanxin Wu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- flocculants
- wastewater treatment
- emerging contaminants
- resources recovery
- carbon neutrality
- sustainability
- flocculants modification
