Analysis and Fate of Emerging Pollutants during Water Treatment

Call for Papers

Emerging pollutants are defined as compounds that are not currently covered by existing water-quality regulations all over the world, have not been studied widely before, and are thought to be potential threats to environmental ecosystems and human health. They encompass a diverse group of compounds, including pharmaceuticals, drugs of abuse, personal-care products (PCPs), steroids and hormones, surfactants, perfluorinated compounds (PFCs), flame retardants, industrial additives and agents, gasoline additives, nanomaterials, and some new disinfection byproducts (DBPs). To accurately assess the occurrence in water environment and the removal performance of drinking water or wastewater treatment, there are challenges in the analytical methodologies and water treatment technology for emerging pollutants.

This special issue is thus intended to compile up-to-date knowledge on the analysis method and transformation of emerging pollutants in drinking water and wastewater treatment. This issue intends to gather the latest research articles as well as reviews from around the globe with a focus on the newest developments in the analysis techniques of emerging pollutants and knowledge in the transformation of them in drinking water and wastewater treatment. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• Development of new analytical methods to determine emerging pollutants in water
• Development of new sampling technologies for emerging pollutants in water
• Online analytical technologies for emerging pollutants in drinking water or wastewater
• Occurrence and fate of emerging pollutants in surface water or ground water
• Occurrence and fate of emerging pollutants in drinking water or wastewater treatment
• Removal performance and transformation of emerging pollutant in novel water treatment technology

Before submission authors should carefully read over the journal's Author Guidelines, which are located at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jamc/guidelines/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/submit/journals/jamc/afep/ according to the following timetable:

Lead Guest Editor

• Fei Qi, Beijing Key Laboratory for Source Control Technology of Water Pollution, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Beijing Forestry University, P.O. Box 60, No. 35 Qinghua East Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100083, China

Guest Editors

• Guang-Guo Ying, Key Laboratory of Organic Geochemistry, Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510640, China
• Kaimin Shih, Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong
• Jolanta Kumirska, Department of Environmental Analysis, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Gdansk, Sobieskiego 18/19, 80-952 Gdansk, Poland
• Elif Pehlivanoglu-Mantas, Environmental Engineering Department, Istanbul Technical University, Ayazaga Campus, Maslak, 34469 Istanbul, Turkey
• Xiaojun Luo, State Key Laboratory of Organic Geochemistry, Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510640, China