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A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "New Sensors, New Technologies and Machine Learning in Water Sciences".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 September 2023) | Viewed by 7797

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Dr. Antonio Panico

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Department of Engineering, University of Campania L. Vanvitelli, Caserta, Italy
Interests: water treatment; wastewater treatment; solid waste treatment; soil remediation; biofuel production; biopolimers production; biological process; microalgae cultivation; mathematical modelling
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Prof. Dr. Corrado Gisonni

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Hydraulic Engineering, Department of Engineering, Università della Campania, Aversa, Italy
Interests: sewer hydraulics; water supply systems; urban hydraulics; supercritical open channel flows; river training techniques; fluvial hydraulics and river engineering; flood risk assessment and mitigation
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Dr. Gaetano Crispino

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Department of Engineering, Università degli Studi della Campania “L. Vanvitelli”, Aversa, Italy
Interests: urban flooding; flood hazard and risk assessment; hydrological and hydraulic modelling; sustainable urban drainage systems; low-impact development pratictices; wastewater hydraulics; hydraulic structures
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Dear Colleagues,

Climate changes and worldwide demographic growth are the main factors responsible for increasing the water demand as well as worsening the quality of natural water resources. Advanced models and methods including remote sensing technologies, IoT techniques, green infrastructures for stormwater management, new monitoring systems, early warning models will be valuable tools to face the future challenges deriving from a sustainable management of water resources. At this regard, this special Issue seeks research papers proposing new efficient methodologies and practical solutions aimed at solving problems affecting any of the segments composing the human water cycle: water supply/treatment/distribution as well as wastewater drainage/treatment/ processes.

Climate change effects, water quality control and monitoring, physical and numerical modelling, environmental risk assessment and management, green technologies, biological processes, advanced water and wastewater treatments, wastewater based epidemiology methodology, sustainability and environmental policies are the main common factors that characterize the manuscripts published on this special issue.

Prof. Dr. Antonio Panico
Prof. Dr. Corrado Gisonni
Dr. Gaetano Crispino
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Keywords

Water supply category

recycled water
reused water
sustainable water supply
water footprint
leakage
energy-saving
DMA

Urban drainage category

urban drainage system
green infrastructure
SUDS
urban flooding
real-time control
monitoring
artificial Neural Network
smart city
WBE (wastewater based epidemiology)

Wastewater category

wastewater treatment
wastewater management
asm models
advanced biological systems
nutrients removal
emerging contaminants
sewage sludge
wastewater reclamation
biogas production
greenhouse gas control

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Methodological Approach for an Online Water Quality Monitoring System in an Iron Ore Tailing Dam

by Renato Oliveira da Silva Júnior, Helena Pereira Almeida, Marcio Sousa da Silva, Adriano Cuenya França, Eduardo Balleroni, Nailson dos Santos, Paulo Henrique Vilela, Adayana Maria Queiroz de Melo and José Tasso Felix Guimarães

Water 2023, 15(20), 3663; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/w15203663 - 19 Oct 2023

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Monitoring the concentration of potentially toxic elements (PTEs) in the aquatic ecosystems of the Amazon is critical to guarantee the maintenance of the ecological balance and the life quality of human populations that reside in or use these environments for survival. In this sense, many rivers in the region are dammed to form lakes for depositing mining tailings. Among these, the Gelado Project has the largest iron ore dam in the Amazon that occupies about 13.5 km² of surface area with 142 million m³ of water and tailings volume, which are currently being mined for exploration, and its upstream waters and downstream are historically used by traditional populations. Based on this, to monitor the impacts of this activity, an online system for sampling and automatic analysis of water quality, composed of three process analyzers monitoring more than 20 parameters, including the PTEs (Cd, Pb, Fe, Mn, Ni, and Cu), was installed downstream of this dam. Therefore, this short communication describes this system’s development, installation, operation, and main advantage over conventional methods. Full article

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Investigation of the Hydroelectric Development Potential of Nonpowered Dams: A Case Study of the Buyuk Menderes River Basin

by Quentin Adjetey Okang, Tor Haakon Bakken and Aslı Bor

Water 2023, 15(4), 717; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/w15040717 - 11 Feb 2023

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The adaptation of nonpowered dams (NPDs) to dams with hydroelectric generation units requires only minor interventions compared with the construction of a completely new dam and power plant. Thus, it is both more economical and has a minimal environmental impact, especially during construction. The aim of this study was to determine the environmental, technical, and economic feasibility of hydroelectric retrofitting projects in the Büyük Menderes basin in Turkey. For this purpose, the economic feasibility and retrofitting potential of 11 NPDs in the basin were investigated using Water Evaluation and Planning (WEAP) software. The results from the energy simulation revealed that the annual average hydropower generation potential and installed capacity for the selected 11 NPDs are 38.7 GWh/year and 4.4 MW, respectively. The total estimated capital investment cost of the 11 retrofit projects was found to be $7.9 million with a total NPV of $25.6 million. In addition, in this study, the leveled electricity cost for each retrofitting project was established and compared with the LCOE values of other renewable energy sources. The findings show that retrofitting NPDs may represent an as yet untapped opportunity to support the global energy transition by providing a cheaper and more environmentally friendly option to pioneer rural electrification. Full article

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Effect of Static Magnetic Fields on the Composition of Marine Biofouling in Seawater Transportation Pipelines

by Carol Ostojic, Génesis Serrano, Pablo Ferrada, Mauricio Escalona, Victor Jiménez, María Teresa González, Alejandro Maureira, Antonio Panico, Manuel Zapata and Mariella Rivas

Water 2022, 14(21), 3362; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/w14213362 - 23 Oct 2022

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The use of seawater for mining purposes in Chile has progressively increased in recent years as fast as the interest on the negative effects of biofouling on the inner part of pipelines used to transport seawater. To prevent biofouling, chemical antifouling compounds are traditionally used, thus, causing negative environmental impacts. The aim of this research has, therefore, been to evaluate the efficiency of static magnetic fields (SMF) generators to mitigate the biofouling. Hence, experimental activities have been conducted on high density polyethylene (HDPE) pipes equipped with neodymium magnets during two experimental periods in the year of 2019, i.e., autumn–winter (A–W) and spring–summer (S–S), and under two types of SMF, i.e., continuous-type (PCS) and pulse-type (PPS). Physicochemical parameters and cell viability of microorganisms composing the biofilm were investigated. Metagenomic analyses on biofilm were conducted as well. The results showed that the cell viability was the highest, i.e., 757,780 cells/cm², during S–S and the lowest, i.e., 349,151 cells/cm², in A–W, both under PCS. In S–S, as well as A–W, biofilm was characterized for the most abundant eukaryotic operational taxonomic units (OTUs) under PPS conditions. The presence of OTUs, such as Articiflavibacter spp., Chaetonotida spp. and Desmodorida spp., was observed only from SMF tests. Full article

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The Adsorptive Removal of Bengal Rose by Artichoke Leaves: Optimization by Full Factorials Design

by Amel Khalfaoui, Mohamed Nadir Khelifi, Anouar Khelfaoui, Abderrezzaq Benalia, Kerroum Derbal, Corrado Gisonni, Gaetano Crispino and Antonio Panico

Water 2022, 14(14), 2251; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/w14142251 - 18 Jul 2022

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Currently, the dye industry is increasing its production as a consequence of the growing need for their products in different manufacturing sectors, such as textiles, plastics, food, paper, etc... Thereafter, these industries generate very large volumes of effluents contaminated by these dyes, which require proper removal treatment before final discharge of the effluents into the environment. In this study, artichoke leaves were used as an economical and eco-friendly bio-adsorbent for Bengal Rose (BR) dye removal. Bio-adsorbent obtained from artichoke leaves was ground to powder size. The resulting powder was characterized by different methods, such as Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET) surface area analysis, scanning electron microscopy(SEM), X-ray Diffraction (XRD), Fourier transfer infrared (FTIR), pH at point of zero charge (pH_pzc), equilibrium pH, iodine number, methylene blue number, phenol number, density, Energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX) and Thermo-gravimetric analysis (TGA). Thereafter, the bio-adsorbent was used to study its capability for removing BR dye by testing contact time, initial concentration of dye and temperature. The results show that the saturation of bio-sorbent was reached after 40 min and the removal rate of BR dye by artichoke leaves powder (ALP) was 4.07 mg/g, which corresponds to a removal efficiency of 80.1%. A design of experiences (DOE) based on a two-level full factorial design (2³) was used to study the effects of different parameters, such as pH, temperature and bio-adsorbent dosage on BR dye removal efficiency. The obtained results show that the highest removal efficiency was 86.5% for the optimized values of pH (4), temperature (80 °C) and bio-adsorbent dosage (8 g/L). Furthermore, a satisfying accordance between experimental and predicted data was observed. The kinetic and isotherm studies show that the pseudo-second order model simulated adequately the obtained data and it was found that Langmuir and Temkin isotherm models are liable and suitable for evaluating the adsorption process performance. Free energy change of adsorption (ΔG°), enthalpy change (ΔH°) and entropy change (ΔS°) were furthermore calculated to predict the nature of the adsorption process. Full article

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