The Introduction of the Special Issue

One of the most environmental problems is the disposal of improperly treated wastewater generated in many industrial activities such as tanneries, metal plating facilities and mining operations in water streams. Huge volumes of industrial wastewater are drawn into the environment. In addition the mining of uranium ores and their hydrometallurgical processing as well as the operation of nuclear power plants and disposal of spent nuclear fuel are potential sources of radioactive pollution of the environment. Moreover several organic pollutants such as dyes and pesticides …etc are discharged into the environment. On the other hand, wastewater may also contain a considerable amount of valuable ions such as Ag+, Au3+, Pt2+… etc.

Various technological challenges are required to remove the heavy metals or to recover the precious elements from wastewater. Nowadays Environmental Friendly adsorbents are efficient materials in environmental applications due to their biocompatibility, biodegradability, nontoxicity, low-cost, and renewable nature. Adsorption has wide industrial and environmental applications, particularly in removal, separation of harmful heavy metals for wastewater treatment. In our special issue we focus on waste sorption onto eco-friendly adsorbents.

In view of this, we invite authors to submit original research and review articles that will encourage the continuing efforts to develop the innovative technology for the removal of different pollutants from the water resources and wastewater. We would also welcome the articles primarily based on the R&D directed towards the extraction of some radioactive metals as well as precious elements from aqueous media. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

1- Development of new sorbents and/or chemical modification of usual sorbents.

2- Modeling of performances

3- Sorption of heavy metals and organic pollutants (dyes, pesticides, phenols…etc).

4- Sorption of radio-nucleotides from radioactive wastewater.

5- Sorption of precious and rare elements from wastewater, spent batteries, industrial manufacturing scarps, byproducts, residue, waste solution and metal scraps

The Research Scope of the Special Issue

· sorption

· Environmental remediation

· Pollutants

· water

· wastewater

The Article Title of the Special Issue

1: wastewater

2: removal

3: extraction

4: organic pollutants

5: dyes

6: wastewater

7: metal ions

Submission guidelines

All papers should be submitted via the Probe - Environmental Science and Technology submission system: http://probe.usp-pl.com/index.php/PES/index

Submitted articles should not be published or under review elsewhere. All submissions will be subject to the journal’s standard peer review process. Criteria for acceptance include originality, contribution, scientific merit and relevance to the field of interest of the Special Issue.

Important Dates

Paper Submission Due: Waiting for confirmation

The Lead Guest Editor

Khalid Zaki Elwakeel