Environmental sustainability and wastewater management are closely aligned. The rapid increase of industrialization, urbanization, and subsequent increase in pollution and increased pollution complexity has led to the increasing generation of noxious, non-biodegradable, and highly complex wastewater discharged from industrial and municipal sources. This wastewater poses a serious threat to both public and environmental health. Worldwide environment regulatory authorities are setting strict norms for the disposal of wastewater into the environment. Thus, the contaminated wastewater needs treatment(s) to remove or lower the concentration of toxic pollutants to obtain acceptable levels prior to its reuse or discharge to the environment.
Various physical and chemical approaches, such as solar & mechanical evaporation, membrane filtration, ion-exchange, coagulation/flocculation, and adsorption are not preferred, due to sensitivity to variable water input, high consumption of expensive chemicals, high capital and operation costs. Adequate wastewater treatment is not typically accomplished using a single treatment approach due to the generation of a large amount of sludge as well as secondary pollutants and hence a combination of different technologies is preferred.
Emerging technologies including biological/physico-chemical are nowadays available for the sustainable and efficient remediation of unwanted colour, target, and other toxic compounds. One example of such emerging approaches is plant-microbe-assisted treatment of wastewater pollutants either in constructed or floating wetland systems.
The aim of this Research Topic is to provide a suitable platform to publish established and updated research on applications of emerging approaches for integrated biodegradation and detoxification of all types of wastewater. This Research Topic welcomes Original Research and Review articles, or Case Studies, focusing on different aspects of sustainable emerging approaches employed for the integrated treatment of contaminated wastewater and reduce or completely eliminate organic, inorganic, and organometallic contaminants in wastewater. Contributions from both experimental and numerical researchers are encouraged. Reports on field trials are of special interest.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
• Hybrid approaches coupling bioremediation with advanced oxidation processes for environmental sustainability.
• Plant-microbial fuel cells in bioremediation and biodegradation of wastewater.
• Microalgal-plant-based remediation of emerging contaminants from wastewater.
• Plant-Microbe Nexus in remediation.
• Constructed wetland-microbial fuel cells for remediation of wastewater.
• Bioaugmentation of constructed wetland with plant growth-promoting bacteria for remediation of wastewater.
• Phyto-nanotechnology in remediation of environmental contaminants.
• Integrated bacteria-algae approaches for remediation of emerging contaminants.
• Integration of physicochemical processes with microbial systems for enhanced remediation of wastewater pollutants.
• Coupling of anaerobic-aerobic processes for degradation and detoxification of wastewater.
• Fungal-Bacterial synergism in degradation and detoxification of persistent organic pollutants from wastewater.
• Bioelectrochemical systems for degradation of wastewater pollutants.
• Hybrid bioreactors treatment system for removal of wastewater pollutants.
• Wastewater desalination technologies for a sustainable environment.
• Techno-economic feasibility of integrated treatment approaches.
• Life cycle assessment of wastewater treatment approaches.
• Environmental nexus in wastewater treatment.
Environmental sustainability and wastewater management are closely aligned. The rapid increase of industrialization, urbanization, and subsequent increase in pollution and increased pollution complexity has led to the increasing generation of noxious, non-biodegradable, and highly complex wastewater discharged from industrial and municipal sources. This wastewater poses a serious threat to both public and environmental health. Worldwide environment regulatory authorities are setting strict norms for the disposal of wastewater into the environment. Thus, the contaminated wastewater needs treatment(s) to remove or lower the concentration of toxic pollutants to obtain acceptable levels prior to its reuse or discharge to the environment.
Various physical and chemical approaches, such as solar & mechanical evaporation, membrane filtration, ion-exchange, coagulation/flocculation, and adsorption are not preferred, due to sensitivity to variable water input, high consumption of expensive chemicals, high capital and operation costs. Adequate wastewater treatment is not typically accomplished using a single treatment approach due to the generation of a large amount of sludge as well as secondary pollutants and hence a combination of different technologies is preferred.
Emerging technologies including biological/physico-chemical are nowadays available for the sustainable and efficient remediation of unwanted colour, target, and other toxic compounds. One example of such emerging approaches is plant-microbe-assisted treatment of wastewater pollutants either in constructed or floating wetland systems.
The aim of this Research Topic is to provide a suitable platform to publish established and updated research on applications of emerging approaches for integrated biodegradation and detoxification of all types of wastewater. This Research Topic welcomes Original Research and Review articles, or Case Studies, focusing on different aspects of sustainable emerging approaches employed for the integrated treatment of contaminated wastewater and reduce or completely eliminate organic, inorganic, and organometallic contaminants in wastewater. Contributions from both experimental and numerical researchers are encouraged. Reports on field trials are of special interest.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
• Hybrid approaches coupling bioremediation with advanced oxidation processes for environmental sustainability.
• Plant-microbial fuel cells in bioremediation and biodegradation of wastewater.
• Microalgal-plant-based remediation of emerging contaminants from wastewater.
• Plant-Microbe Nexus in remediation.
• Constructed wetland-microbial fuel cells for remediation of wastewater.
• Bioaugmentation of constructed wetland with plant growth-promoting bacteria for remediation of wastewater.
• Phyto-nanotechnology in remediation of environmental contaminants.
• Integrated bacteria-algae approaches for remediation of emerging contaminants.
• Integration of physicochemical processes with microbial systems for enhanced remediation of wastewater pollutants.
• Coupling of anaerobic-aerobic processes for degradation and detoxification of wastewater.
• Fungal-Bacterial synergism in degradation and detoxification of persistent organic pollutants from wastewater.
• Bioelectrochemical systems for degradation of wastewater pollutants.
• Hybrid bioreactors treatment system for removal of wastewater pollutants.
• Wastewater desalination technologies for a sustainable environment.
• Techno-economic feasibility of integrated treatment approaches.
• Life cycle assessment of wastewater treatment approaches.
• Environmental nexus in wastewater treatment.
