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Water Research Institute (IRSA), National Research Council (CNR), Via F. de Blasio 5, 70132 Bari, Italy
Water Research Institute (IRSA), National Research Council (CNR), Via F. de Blasio 5, 70132 Bari, Italy

New Research on Waste Treatment, Disposal and Valorization

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31 January 2025
Manuscript submission deadline
31 March 2025
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Dear Colleagues,

Increasingly tighter regulations regarding organic waste and the ever higher demand for renewable chemicals and fuels due to exponential population growth, industrialization and climate change render the management of waste resources to meet global demand more and more challenging. Wastewater, waste plastic, waste food, agricultural waste and carbon dioxide are only a few examples from the field of waste that require effective strategies for their management and valorization to improve cost-effectiveness and meet customers’ demands. The development of environmentally sound, innovative strategies to process waste from different industrial origins is an area of increasing importance in current research. There are two ways to deal with waste generation: the principles and strategies of the circular economy and sustainable development. Much research has been carried out on disposing and decomposing waste as well as on valorization using novel technologies to generate valuable products such as fuels and useful organic chemicals (via biorefinery or white biotechnology). This Topic, titled “New Research on Waste Treatment, Disposal and Valorization", will collect original research papers, reviews and short communications reflecting the state of the art and future applications in this field, with particular emphasis on their application at both laboratory and industrial scales. 

Dr. Antonella Angelini
Dr. Carlo Pastore
Topic Editors

Keywords

  • waste management
  • environment
  • biorefinery
  • circular economy
  • sustainability

Participating Journals

Journal Name Impact Factor CiteScore Launched Year First Decision (median) APC
Catalysts
catalysts
3.8 6.8 2011 12.9 Days CHF 2700 Submit
Energies
energies
3.0 6.2 2008 17.5 Days CHF 2600 Submit
Processes
processes
2.8 5.1 2013 14.4 Days CHF 2400 Submit
Sustainability
sustainability
3.3 6.8 2009 20 Days CHF 2400 Submit
Waste
waste
- - 2023 30.3 Days CHF 1000 Submit
Water
water
3.0 5.8 2009 16.5 Days CHF 2600 Submit
Molecules
molecules
4.2 7.4 1996 15.1 Days CHF 2700 Submit
Nanomaterials
nanomaterials
4.4 8.5 2010 13.8 Days CHF 2900 Submit

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Enhanced Photoluminescence of Plasma-Treated Recycled Glass Particles
by Zdeněk Remeš, Oleg Babčenko, Vítězslav Jarý and Klára Beranová
Nanomaterials 2024, 14(13), 1091; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano14131091 - 25 Jun 2024
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Recycled soda-lime glass powder is a sustainable material that is also often considered a filler in cement-based composites. The changes in the surface properties of the glass particles due to the treatments were analyzed by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and optical spectroscopy. We [...] Read more.
Recycled soda-lime glass powder is a sustainable material that is also often considered a filler in cement-based composites. The changes in the surface properties of the glass particles due to the treatments were analyzed by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and optical spectroscopy. We have found that there is a relatively high level of carbon contamination on the surface of the glass particles (around 30 at.%), so plasma technology and thermal annealing were tested for surface cleaning. Room temperature plasma treatment was not sufficient to remove the carbon contamination from the surface of the recycled glass particles. Instead, the room temperature plasma treatment of recycled soda-lime glass particles leads to a significant enhancement in their room temperature photoluminescence (PL) by increasing the intensity and accelerating the decay of the photoluminescence. The enhanced blue PL after room-temperature plasma treatment was attributed to the presence of carbon contamination on the glass surface and associated charge surface and interfacial defects and interfacial states. Therefore, we propose blue photoluminescence under UV LED as a fast and inexpensive method to indicate carbon contamination on the surface of glass particles. Full article
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