Archive for the ‘Themed Collections’ Category

Read our collection of papers on UN SDG 6: Clean water & sanitation

Urgent action is needed to combat the climate emergency and associated impacts – and across the world, our community are collaborating to address UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

We have put together a collection of leading content on clean water and sanitation from across our energy and environmental science journals. This diverse collection features work on wastewater treatment and disinfection, water resource recovery and monitoring water quality – vital technologies that will help us to improve access to sustainable water for all and address SDG 6.

Read on to discover this exciting collection, featuring:

Opportunities for nanotechnology to enhance electrochemical treatment of pollutants in potable water and industrial wastewater – a perspective by Paul Westerhoff et al.

The potential contribution of urine source separation to the SDG agenda – a review of the progress so far and future development options by Tove A. Larsen et al.

A case study on tap water quality in large buildings recommissioned after extended closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic by Maryam Salehi et al.

A flexible copper sulfide composite membrane with tunable plasmonic resonance absorption for near-infrared light-driven seawater desalination by Zhenmin Xu, Shiping Yang, Zhenfeng Bian et al.

Join us in tackling the climate crisis and contribute to our cross-journal collection showcasing research advancing UN SDGs

The principles of the UN SDGs align closely with our own – to help the chemical science community make the world a better place. So that we can achieve this, we are curating a cross-journal collection across our energy and environmental science journals.

This collection will cover studies which advance our understanding of the climate situation, and present new technologies & innovations to combat climate change – inclusive of environmental engineering, materials science, energy science disciplines and beyond.

We invite you to publish your next paper in this collection – quote ‘XXSDG0622’ when submitting your manuscript. You can put your trust in both our rigorous peer review process and fast times to publication – which are less than 9 weeks after submission across all our journals.

If you have some exciting results to publish on these topics, we would be delighted to hear from you – we are also very happy to guide you on which RSC journal would be the most appropriate for your paper.

Submit your manuscript to the collection

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Drinking water oxidation and disinfection processes: Themed Issue in Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology

Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology (ESWRT) seeks your high-impact research for our upcoming Themed Issue on Drinking water oxidation and disinfection processes.

Guest Edited by Tom Bond (University of Surrey), Wenhai Chu (Tongji University), Maria José Farré (ICRA Catalan Institute for Water Research) and Urs von Gunten (EAWAG), this interdisciplinary issue will feature the latest advances in chemical, toxicological, epidemiological, microbiological, public health and engineering aspects of drinking water oxidation and disinfection processes. A wide range of contributions are encouraged, including investigation of the formation, impacts and control of transformation products and disinfection byproducts associated with the use of chlorine, chloramines, chlorine dioxide, ozone, ferrate and advanced oxidation processes.

Submissions for this Themed Issue are due by 31st March 2020 – if you would like to submit to this Themed Issue, please contact the Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology Editorial Office at eswater-rsc@rsc.org to let us know.

 

 

 

 

 

 


Guest Editors (Left to Right)
: Tom Bond (University of Surrey), Wenhai Chu (Tongji University), Maria José Farré (ICRA Catalan Institute for Water Research) and Urs von Gunten (EAWAG)

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PFAS: Themed Issue

Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology seeks your high-impact research for our upcoming Themed Issue on PFAS.

Guest Edited by Lutz Ahrens (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden), Michelle Crimi (Clarkson University, USA) and Chris Higgins (Colorado School of Mines, USA), this issue will provide an overview of topics related to emerging technologies and approaches that are being developed for treatment, remediation and management of PFAS-contaminated water.

Examples of specific topics of interest for this Themed Issue include, but are not limited to:

  • Transformation of polyfluorinated precursors – processes and products
  • Biological, chemical, and physical treatment methods of PFAS and polyfluorinated precursors
  • Fate of PFAS in public water systems and solid waste treatment systems
  • Approaches to PFAS site characterization and exposure assessment
  • Risk management and options for regulation (e.g. short-chain PFAS)
  • Identification and tracking of sources of PFAS contamination

This issue will be part a pair of Themed Issues on PFASs organized in collaboration with ESWRT’s sister journal Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts (ESPI). The ESWRT Themed Issue will focus on treatment, remediation, and management of PFASs; whereas the ESPI issue will focus on occurrence, fate, behaviour and effects of PFAS. Find out more about the ESPI issue here.

Submissions for this Themed Issue are due by 30th April – If you would like to submit to this Themed Issue, please contact the Environmental Science Water Research & Technology Editorial Office at eswater-rsc@rsc.org to let us know.

Guest Editors: Left to Right – Lutz Ahrens (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden), Michelle Crimi (Clarkson University, USA) and Chris Higgins (Colorado School of Mines, USA

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Anaerobic Technology: Themed Issue

Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology seeks your high-impact research for our upcoming Themed Issue on Anaerobic Technology

Guest Edited by Jeremy Guest (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) Paige Novak (University of Minnesota, USA) and Aijie Wang (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China), this issue will showcase high-impact original research, perspectives, and reviews, discussing state-of-the-art anaerobic bioprocesses.

The scope of this issue includes but is not limited to the following topics:

  • Anaerobic technology for resource recovery including bioenergy recovery, nutrient recovery, biochemical recovery, reuse of effluent and digestate
  • Anaerobic-centric technology for industrial and municipal wastewater treatment
  • Innovative/emerging anaerobic technologies including ANAMMOX, bioelectrochemical systems and its application in anaerobic processes
  • Intensifying anaerobic treatment
  • Liquid fuel production
  • Controlling communities
  • Innovations in hydrolysis

Submissions for this Themed Issue are due by 4th May 2018 – if you would like to submit to this Themed Issue, please contact the Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology Editorial Office at eswater-rsc@rsc.org to let us know.

Guest Editors: Left to Right – Jeremy Guest (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) Paige Novak (University of Minnesota, USA) and Aijie Wang (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

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UV AOPs: Themed Issue

Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology seeks your high-impact research for our upcoming Themed Issue on Ultraviolet-based Advanced Oxidation Processes (UV AOPs)

Guest Edited by Dion Dionysiou (University of Cincinnati, USA), Graham Gagnon (Dalhousie University, Canada), Stuart Khan (University of New South Wales, Australia) and Mike Templeton (Imperial College London, UK), this issue will showcase original research, perspectives, and reviews, relating to the following aspects of UV AOPs:

    • By-products, kinetics, and toxicity (e.g. mutagenicity, cytotoxicity) of UV AOP treatment of natural organic matter and micro-pollutants (e.g. pesticides, pharmaceuticals)
    • Topics on UV AOPs that use light-emitting diodes (LED) and/or other alternative UV sources besides mercury lamps are particularly encouraged
    • Comparisons of alternative UV AOP oxidants/processes (e.g. hydrogen peroxide, titanium dioxide, other emerging photocatalysts, chlorine, ozone, others)
    • The impact of pre-treatment steps on UV AOP performance
    • UV AOP fluence measurement; UV-LED-AOP measurement and performance monitoring during operation
    • Novel UV AOP reactor design and application of functionality
    • Life cycle assessments of UV AOPs
    • The impact of changing water matrices on UV AOP performance (e.g. different natural organic matter types, alkalinity)
    • UV AOP applications for wastewater treatment and water reuse
    • Modeling, scale up, process integration, and pilot/full scale performance evaluation of UV AOPs
    • Role of UV AOPs in water-energy-food nexus applications
    • Submissions that simply report the effectiveness of UV AOPs at degrading a particular target compound or set of compounds in pure lab-grade waters will not be considered.

Submissions for this Themed Issue are due by March 2018 – if you would like to submit to this Themed Issue, please contact the Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology Editorial Office at eswater-rsc@rsc.org to register your interest.

Guest Editors: Left to Right – Dion Dionysiou (University of Cincinnati, USA), Graham Gagnon (Dalhousie University, Canada), Stuart Khan (University of New South Wales, Australia) and Mike Templeton (Imperial College London, UK)

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What are your colleagues reading in Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology?

The articles below are some of the most read Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology articles in 2016. You can view the full collection of our top 10 downloaded articles here.

 

Membrane materials for water purification: design, development, and application
Anna Lee, Jeffrey W. Elam and Seth B. Darling

 

Inorganic engineered nanoparticles in drinking water treatment: a critical review
Konstantinos Simeonidis, Stefanos Mourdikoudis, Efthimia Kaprara, Manassis Mitrakas and Lakshminarayana Polavarapu

 

Survey of green building water systems reveals elevated water age and water quality concerns
William J. Rhoads, Amy Pruden and Marc A. Edwards

 

Characterising and understanding the impact of microbial biofilms and the extracellular polymeric substance (EPS) matrix in drinking water distribution systems
Katherine E. Fish, A. Mark Osborn and Joby Boxall

 

Inactivation of bacteria from contaminated streams in Limpopo, South Africa by silver- or copper-nanoparticle paper filters
Theresa A. Dankovich, Jonathan S. Levine, Natasha Potgieter, Rebecca Dillingham and James A. Smith

 

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Brine Mining Nexus Themed Issue

Are you currently developing new techniques or novel materials to treat saline water for brine management or resource recovery?

If so, you are encouraged to submit a paper to a themed issue of Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology dedicated to Brine Mining Nexus.

Brine or concentrate management offers both the challenge of saline wastewater disposal and the opportunity to recover valuable minerals. Successful integration of brine management techniques and other processes can open up new horizons for water and wastewater treatment, but will require complementary and innovative development in both process engineering and materials science.

Guest Editors of this themed issue Long Nghiem (University of Wollongong, Australia), Enrico Drioli (Università della Calabria), Tzahi Cath (Colorado School of Mines), and Tao He (Shanghai Advanced Research Institute) are soliciting submissions highlighting research that covers the diverse array of research topics in process engineering and materials science specifically towards the development or further improvement of brine management technologies, such as:

  • Proof-of-concept and pilot demonstration of brine treatment technologies
  • Scaling control and prevention
  • Salt recovery via crystallisation
  • Brine valorisation without crystallisation
  • Novel membrane or ion exchange materials for brine management
  • Non-corrosive materials development
  • Low grade energy utilisation for brine management

Submit your paper by 30th September 2016

We welcome original research papers, communications, perspectives, and review articles.

For more information on the scope of Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology and our author guidelines, please visit our website or email us at eswater-rsc@rsc.org.

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Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology team select their top papers from 2015!

2015 has been a successful first year for Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology – we have published an array of high-impact research and review articles from both leaders and emerging scientists in the field of water research. The major highlights from 2015 have been captured by Editor-in-Chief Professor David Cwiertny in his recent Editorial.

As a celebration of a successful first year of publication, the Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology team have selected their top papers from 2015, listed below. Congratulations to all the authors featured! These papers free to access with an RSC Publishing account – we hope you enjoy reading them.

Triclosan, chlorinated triclosan derivatives, and hydroxylated polybrominated diphenyl ethers (OH-BDEs) in wastewater effluents
R. Noah Hensley, Jill F. Kerrigan, Hao Pang, Paul R. Erickson, Matthew Grandbois, Kristopher McNeill and William A. Arnold, Environ. Sci.: Water Res. Technol., 2015, 1, 316–325, DOI: 10.1039/C4EW00102H

Emerging investigators series: the source and fate of pandemic viruses in the urban water cycle
K. R. Wigginton, Y. Ye and R. M. Ellenberg, Environ. Sci.: Water Res. Technol., 2015, 1, 735–746, DOI: 10.1039/C5EW00125K

Modeling approaches to predict removal of trace organic compounds by ozone oxidation in potable reuse applications
Minkyu Park, Tarun Anumol and Shane A. Snyder, Environ. Sci.: Water Res. Technol., 2015, 1, 699–708, DOI: 10.1039/C5EW00120J

Some of our other highlights from 2015 include:

All content published in Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology in 2015 and 2016 is free to access with an RSC Publishing account – register for free here: http://pubs.rsc.org/en/account/register

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International Water Reuse and Desalination Symposium

A two-day International Water Reuse & Desalination Symposium focused on climate resilient water solutions was held in Brisbane, Australia on the 4th and 5th of November.

This specialty conference was focused on practical aspects of water reuse and desalination, as well as relevant research being conducted in the US and Australia, and featured a blue ribbon assemblage of world-class experts on these two vital components of the water supply equation.

The picture shows Stuart Khan (on the right) presenting the Potable Reuse of Water collection

Editorial Board member and Associate Editor Stuart Khan attended this meeting and took this opportunity to present the Potable Reuse of Water collection included in issue 5 of Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology.

“The delegates understood and appreciated that the focus of our journal is specifically targeted toward engineered systems. That focus makes it considerably more specialised than most of the other water research journals in the field.”

Stuart Khan, Associate Editor

The symposium was a success and the themed collection was very well received. Dedicated to recent advances associated with the potable reuse of water, issue 5 includes a comprehensive collection of papers highlighting research technology and engineering development at the leading edge of potable water reuse.

“There was a lot of interest from the conference participants in our journal. A number of them were authors of the papers presented in this potable reuse of water issue, and others had already submitted papers to our regular issues. The fact that the themed issue was so precisely targeted to one of the key conference themes was particularly appreciated, and all complimentary copies were eagerly snapped up,” Stuart added.

The issue to combine a variety of topics relevant to potable reuse of water. This includes but is not limited to technical innovations, human health risk assessments, monitoring strategies, sustainability assessments and novel applications.

Why not read the full collection now?

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Emerging Investigators Series – Open Call for Applications

We are delighted to announce a new initiative in which we wish to highlight the very best work from environmental scientists, working in the area of water engineering and technology, who are in the early stages of their independent career. Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology has created an on-going Emerging Investigators Series that will feature articles published by up-and-coming researchers who have been identified as having the potential to influence future directions in water research and technology.

Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology showcases high quality research and innovative technologies that promote sustainable water resources. The journal provides a comprehensive and relevant forum that unites the diverse communities and disciplines conducting water research relevant to engineered systems and the built environment.

This is an open call for applications to the Series. Environmental scientists who have completed their PhD (or equivalent degree) within the last 10 years, and have an independent career, can apply to have their research highlighted in the Emerging Investigators Series.

To make an application please email eswater-rsc@rsc.org with the following information:

  • Your name, affiliation, position and contact details
  • Your up-to-date CV (no longer than 2 pages), which should include a summary of education and career, a list of relevant publications, any notable awards, honours or professional activities in the field, and a website URL if relevant
  • A synopsis of the article intended to be submitted to the Series, including a tentative submission date. This can be an original research article (Communication or Full Paper) or a review-type article (Critical Review, Frontier Review or Tutorial Review). Please see the journal website for more information on our article types.

Applications will be reviewed by the Executive Editor, Editor-in-Chief and members of the Editorial Board. The selection criteria for the Emerging Investigators Series will be based on the following:

  • Innovation and impact of research program
  • Quality of publications and/or patents and/or software
  • Profile within institute and/or community

Please note that articles submitted to the journal for the Series will undergo the usual peer-review process, and no guarantees of publication can be given to successful applicants.

In return, successful applicants will receive additional visibility of their research through the inclusion of their article in a high profile themed collection on the journal website, a feature interview on the journal blog devoted to the investigator’s research program (read the latest interviews here), and the offer of discounted membership to the Royal Society of Chemistry, at an appropriate level of membership, for the first year.

Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology authors also benefit from rapid publication times, a simple and user-friendly online submission process and all articles are in colour, free of charge.

Contact and further information
Sarah Ruthven, Executive Editor
Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology
Royal Society of Chemistry
Thomas Graham House, Science Park,
Milton Road, Cambridge, CB4 0WF, UK
Tel: +44 (0) 1223 432129
Email: eswater-rsc@rsc.org

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