Treatment of Industrial Effluents

Dear Colleagues,

Industrial effluents are one of the important pollution sources in the pollution of the water environment. During the last century, a huge amount of those effluents was discharged into rivers, lakes, and coastal areas. This resulted in serious pollution problems. There are many types of industrial effluents based on different industries and contaminants; each sector produces its own particular combination of pollutants. Like the various characteristics of industrial effluents, their treatment must be designed specifically for the particular type of effluent produced. The amount of effluents depends on the technical level of process in each industry sector and will be gradually reduced with the improvement of industrial technologies. The increasing rates of industrial effluents in developing countries are thought to be much higher than those in developed countries. This fact predicts that industrial wastewater pollution, as a mean environment pollution problem, will move from developed countries to developing countries in the early 21st century. So, it is mandatory to find the appropriate technique in order to efficiently treat those effluents. Some indicative/typical methods are biological treatments, adsorption, flocculation, oxidation, membranes, filtration, etc. This Special Issue on “Treatment of Industrial Effluents” seeks high-quality works and topics (not only those) focusing on the latest approaches to the treatment of industrial effluents (not only real but also synthetic/lab-simulated effluents), including biological, chemical, adsorption, flocculation, oxidation, membranes, filtration, etc.

Assoc. Prof. George Z. Kyzas
Guest Editor

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• Industrial effluents
• Brewery
• Winery
• Mining
• Dyeing
• Waters
• Adsorption
• Membranes
• Oxidation
• Flocculation
• Flotation
• Filtration