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Special Issue of Selected papers of the 4th International Congress on Water, Waste and Energy Management (WWEM-18)

A special issue of Recycling (ISSN 2313-4321).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2018) | Viewed by 4407

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Joaquín R. Dominguez

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1. Chemical Engineering and Chemical Physics Department, Universidad de Extremadura, Av. Elvas s/n, 06006 Badajoz, Spain
2. Instituto Universitario de Investigación del Agua, Cambio Climático y Sostenibilidad (IACYS), Avda de la Investigación s/n, 06006 Badajoz, Spain
Interests: advanced oxidation processes; electrochemical oxidation; sonochemical oxidation; emerging chemical contaminants; inactivation of pathogens
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

As guest editor, I would like to welcome you to the Special Issue that the journal Recycling will publish with selected papers from the 4th International Congress on Water, Waste and Energy Management (WWEM-18), which was held at the University Complutense of Madrid from 18–20 July, 2018.

Our aim is to encourage scientists to publish experimental and theoretical research relating to innovation processes, tools and methodologies relating to resource recycling. We will highlight the following topics: chemical recycling, waste recycling, waste processing technologies, water recycling, water and wastewater treatment Processes, and effluent treatment and recycling.

Prof. Joaquín R. Dominguez
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Recycling is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1800 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • Chemicals recycling
  • Waste recycling
  • Waste processing technologies
  • Water recycling
  • Water and Wastewater Treatment Processes
  • Effluent treatment and recycling

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Viability of the Use of Leachates from a Mechanical Biological Municipal Solid Waste Treatment Plant as Fertilizers
by Jonathan Cardoso, Helder T. Gomes and Paulo Brito
Recycling 2019, 4(1), 8; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/recycling4010008 - 18 Jan 2019
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Abstract
The main environmental issue associated with compost production is the production of a liquid leachate. Leachate from municipal wastes contains carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium and trace elements that can be used as nutrients by plants. The advantages of the use of organic wastes [...] Read more.
The main environmental issue associated with compost production is the production of a liquid leachate. Leachate from municipal wastes contains carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium and trace elements that can be used as nutrients by plants. The advantages of the use of organic wastes such as compost leachate as fertilizers are evident. Their use would reduce the consumption of commercial fertilizers, which need, with their production, high cost and energy. This work aims to determine the physical and chemical properties of a specific leachate with a variable composition, collected from the composting line of a mechanical and biological treatment facility. The goal is to assess if the leachates can be used as a potential source for fertilizers, and thus develop and design a sequence of processes which could effectively convert the leachates to commercial fertilizers according to the requirements of the proposal of regulation of the European Parliament of 2016 for fertilizers. Preliminary results show that the leachate samples qualitatively meet the requirements established for the composition of commercial fertilizers, especially organo-mineral fertilizers. Furthermore, there is no production cost of leachate as a raw material. The results show that the leachate is characterized by manageable concentrations of heavy metals which can be removed by adsorption processes, and it presents suitable amounts of organic carbon after a water removal procedure. However, the establishment of the conditions for suitable conversion processes are still under investigation considering the high composition variability due to factors like storage and environmental conditions. Full article
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