Environmental Monitoring and Assessment - Special Issue: Eco-friendly and Cost-effective approaches for remediation of emerging contaminants from wastewater: Steps towards SDG of Circular Economy
Various emerging contaminants, such as Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs), Endocrine Disrupting Compounds (EDCs), Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products (PPCPs), Dyes, microplastics, nanoplastics, and Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs), are the main components of wastewater and sludge produced by the industrial sector around the world and specially in developing countries. The use of PPCPs, masks, etc. has increased in the aftermath of Covid-19, which in turn has increased the content of these emerging contaminants in wastewater. These emerging contaminants have proven to be carcinogenic, cytotoxic, and mutagenic, having significant environmental and human consequences. The conventional wastewater treatment technologies are found to be expensive, and also create several toxic bye-products needing further treatment. Hence, it is critical to look for eco-friendly and cost-effective technologies for remediation of contaminated wastewater. The eco-friendly and cost-effective remediation approaches will also help in achieving the SDG of becoming a Circular economy. This special issue will be extremely useful to researchers, scientists around the world.
As we are acting as guest editors for this issue, we would like to invite authors to submit original research and review articles focused on remediation of emerging contaminants with special emphasis on the cost-effective methods.
The scope of this issue includes, but not limited to:
• Recent advances in cost-effective and eco-friendly methods for wastewater reclamation
• Modelling the fate and behaviour of emerging contaminants in wastewater
• Toxicity and risk assessment of emerging pollutants
• Environmental occurrences, sources, and physico-chemical characteristics of emerging pollutants
• Advances in methods of detection and analysis
• Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to explore the pathways of emerging contaminants
To submit your manuscript please go to Environmental Monitoring and Assessment (at https://www.springer.com/journal/10661 (this opens in a new tab)) and follow the procedures for manuscript submission. When prompted for ‘Select Article Type’ kindly select our Special Issue ‘SI: ECECW-2021’.
Proposed date of submission of final paper:
Start Date: September 01, 2021
Submission End: April 30, 2022
Guest Editors:
Dr. Saurabh Shukla
Shri Ramswaroop Memorial University, India
Email: saurabh.shukla2020@gmail.com; saurabhshukla.ce@srmu.ac.in
Dr. Govarthanan Muthusamy
Kyungpook National University
South Korea
Email: gova.muthu@gmail.com
Dr. Achlesh Daverey
Doon University
India
Email: ach15may@gmail.com; achlesh.senr@doonuniversity.ac.in