Advances in Life Cycle Assessment in Wastewater Treatment
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Wastewater Treatment and Reuse".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 December 2021) | Viewed by 3464
Special Issue Editors
Interests: life cycle assessment; sustainability; water treatment; circular economy; environmental impact
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue invites research articles on Advances in Life Cycle Assessment in Wastewater Treatment (WWT), an interesting and very useful topic that might be of great interest to the environmental scientist community as well as for the population in general. Wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) are crucial for mitigating the impact of pollutants on water bodies. The transition to a more sustainable operation model requires increasing the system complexity; increasing recycling to save energy and raw materials; and minimizing emissions to the water, air, and soil. On the other hand, in the pursuit of more sustainable scenarios, the circular economy concept develops strategies and ideas for the treatment, processing, and reuse of waste, providing a second life, reducing the final waste to a minimum, and generating economic opportunities.
Thus, this Special Issue aims to attract new advances regarding the environmental assessment and the inclusion of circular economy philosophy in WWTPs. In particular, we invite proposals that discuss the principles, methodologies, case studies, and the integration of recent developments in LCA and environmental foot printing (EF) focused on WWTPs, as well as the integration of life cycle approaches with resource efficiency, circular economy principles, sustainability, and risk assessment.
All researchers working in the field are cordially invited to contribute original research papers or reviews to this Special Issue of Water.
Dr. Montse Meneses
Dr. Jorgelina Pasqualino
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- eco-efficiency
- circular economy in WWT
- life cycle assessment of WWTPs
- water–energy nexus
- WWTPs
- environmental impact
- WWTPs operation for GHG emission minimization
- climate change impact from WWTPs
- WWT optimization
- WWTPs sustainability
