Conference topics

Papers are invited on all aspects of Environmental Biotechnology and Environmental Engineering disciplines, and particular themes for this conference are as follows:

1. Risk Assessment and environmental impact

• Land degradation processes (soil pollution, erosion & salinization)
• Pollution of the aquatic ecosystems (water column, sediments & eutrophication)
• Air pollution (Mobile, fixed industrial & Landfill sources)
• Global climate change, C and N cycling
• Ecotoxicology
• Manufactured product life cycle analysis
• Sewage epidemiology
• One health aspects

2. Technology development for environmental protection and restoration

• Wastewater, gaseous effluents and solid waste* management, treatment & re-use**
• Polluted soil, ground water & sediment remediation
• Hazardous waste management & treatment
• Nutrient removal and/or recyling (N & P)
• Advanced oxidation processes
• Sustainability of environmental and industrial technologies
• Green-house gases mitigation

including *sewage sludge & **agronomic valorization

3. Emerging pollutants

• Pharmaceutical products
• Endocrine disruptors
• Microplastics
• Nanoparticles
• Pesticides
• Xenobiotic compounds

4. Biorefinery & Renewable energy production

• Biogas & hydrogen production
• Microbial Fuel cells
• Biodiesel / Biofuels
• Combination of processes (e.g. solar energy and hydrogen production)
• Nexus water energy
• High value products from liquid, solid and gaseous wastes

5. Societal Challenges

• Circular economy
• Environmental education
• Political regulation
• Social acceptability
• Sustainable agriculture

6. Cross-cutting tools

• Analytical chemistry
• Microbiology and molecular biology tools for a better understanding of natural microbial processes and control of man-made biological treatment processes
• Thermodynamics applied to environmental processes
• Automatic control of processes and modelling

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