Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery - Call for Papers- Bio-Electro-Refinery based remediation of micropollutants from industrial wastes – Insights, mechanism, and challenges

Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery is proud to present an upcoming thematic issue, entitled:

Bio-Electro-Refinery based remediation of micropollutants from industrial wastes – Insights, mechanism, and challenges

Call For Paper (this opens in a new tab)

This thematic issue focuses on integrative wastewater treatment strategies based on a biorefinery-approach with the hope of making wastewater treatment a truly “zero discharge” system with respect to insights, mechanism and with the attainment of sustainability. Recent advancements in this area will be covered, along with all their pros and cons.

Topics of interest of this Special Issue include, but are not limited to:

• Removal of environmental pollutants from industrial wastewater using advance biological, post biochemical and electrothermal or integrated wastewater treatment processes.
• Bio electrochemical sensors for detection of emerging pollutants in wastewater.
• Applications of membrane-based bioreactors for wastewater treatment: removal, mechanisms, and perspectives of micro pollutants. 
• Removal of pharmaceutical and personal care products in wastewater using biological and electrochemical means. 
• Resource recovery from waste through Bio-Electro-Refinery. 
• Removal of organic micro-pollutants by aerobic and anaerobic microorganism. 
• Emerging contaminants of industrial origin and their enzyme-assisted bio degradation.
• Use of micro algae for the removal of emerging contaminants from wastewater. 
• Bio electrochemical systems for sustainable environmental remediation and bioenergy generation. 
• Bio augmentation as a strategy for the removal of emerging pollutants from wastewater

Please read the full call for paper (this opens in a new tab) for more details.

The focus of this thematic issue is on original research papers with novel findings and new results meetings the highest scientific standards in the research field outlined above. Review papers are typically rejected. They are only exceptionally accepted if they are tackling a clearly new question and / or providing new and in-depth insights into a specific topic. Papers must be submitted electronically via

https://www.editorialmanager.com/bcab/default2.aspx (this opens in a new tab)

All manuscripts submitted to this thematic issue will go through a stringent peer review process managed by the editorial staff of the journal, and only those that are accepted after peer review will be published. The manuscripts must be prepared strictly following the guidelines of the journal; otherwise, they will be rejected, see

https://www.springer.com/journal/13399/submission-guidelines#Instructions%20for%20Authors_Open%20Choice (this opens in a new tab)

Please check the instructions to authors and the guidelines for submission, see

https://www.springer.com/journal/13399 (this opens in a new tab)

Please also have a closer look at the rules related to self-citation as well as plagiarism. To ensure that all manuscripts are correctly identified for inclusion into the thematic issue, it is important to answer ‘Yes’ to the question ‘Is this submission for a special issue?’ and provide the title “Bio-Electro-Refinery based remediation of micropollutants from industrial wastes – Insights, mechanism, and challenges”.

Targeted opening and closing date for manuscript submission to the thematic issue:

Opening Date: March 1^st, 2024
Closing Date: November 30^th, 2024

Guest Editors

Dr. Maulin P Shah (shahmp@beil.co.in (this opens in a new tab))

Industrial Wastewater Research Lab, Division of Applied & Environmental Microbiology, Enviro Technology Limited, India

Dr Sovik Das (dassovik@iitd.ac.in (this opens in a new tab))

Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India