Journal of Environmental Management 286 (2021) 112256

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Journal of Environmental Management

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Treatment technologies for emerging contaminants in water☆

It is a great honour and pleasure to publish this Special Issue of the As Guest Editors, we would like to express our cordial gratitude to all
Journal of Environmental Management (JEMA) dedicated to the 5th In­ Organizing and Scientific Committee members, and Technical Secre­
ternational Congress on Water, Waste and Energy Management tariat Mr Javier L. Especially thanks to “Sciknowledge European Con­
(WWEM-19), held in Paris, France, from 22nd to 26th July 2019. ferences” for your professional technical support.
Over 130 participants from 28 different countries attended the We would also like to express our sincere gratitude to JEMA Editor-
WWEM-19 (approximately 200 presentations, including 105 posters, 90 in-Chiefs Profs. Raf Dewil and Jason Evans for their efforts in realizing
selected oral communications, and 5 plenary talks). this Special Issue.
This Special Issue was dedicated to “Treatment technologies for Thank you!
emerging contaminants in water”. Emerging ontaminants (ECs), Best Regards
including pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) are The Guest Editors
increasingly being detected at low levels in water and wastewater. There
are many ECs and PPCPs that act as so-called endocrine disruptors (EDs). Joaquin R. Dominguez*
These compounds can alter the normal functions of hormones resulting Department of Chemical Engineering and Physical Chemistry, University of
in a variety of health effects. The emerging contaminants may also Extremadura, Spain
demonstrate low acute toxicity but cause significant reproductive effects
Avelino Núñez-Delgado
at very low levels of exposure. In recent years, the presence of these
University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
contaminants has been detected and recognized as significant water
E-mail address: avelino.nunez@usc.es.
pollutants that have adverse effects. Conventional treatment processes
are not capable of removing these micropollutants which are reported to Juan García-Rodríguez
bioaccumulate in macro-organisms. University Complutense of Madrid, Spain
In this connection, this Special Issue discusses different technologies E-mail address: juangcia@quim.ucm.es.
to remove these pollutants, including phase-changing processes
(adsorption and biosorption systems), biological processes (microbio­ *
Corresponding author.
logical treatments), advanced oxidation processes (homogeneous and E-mail address: jrdoming@unex.es (J.R. Dominguez).
heterogeneous catalytic and/or photocatalytic processes), electro­
chemical and sonochemical processes.

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Dedicated to the 5th International Congress on Water, Waste and Energy Management (WWEM-19), Paris, France, July 22–26, 2019.

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