Journal of Water Process Engineering

Aims

The Journal of Water Process Engineering aims to be the premier international forum for the publication of world leading, high impact research on the sustainable engineering of water and wastewater treatment processes.

Scope

Water process engineering is interpreted by us as the understanding and application of the fundamental laws and principles of nature that allow us to transform raw or waste water sources into products that are useful to society, while operating at laboratory, pilot or full industrial scale. These products include clean water, energy and material resources. Our scope focuses on the design, operation, control, modelling, optimization and intensification of chemical, physical, and biological processes for water treatment.

We emphasize the process engineering aspects of water treatment processes, for which the focus of the study is on the engineered application and practice rather than the fundamental and underlying science.

Submission of outstanding research articles and state-of-the-art reviews are actively encouraged from academic and industrial researchers and technologists in the following areas of interest:

• Sustainable water treatment.
• Potable and wastewater treatment, resource recovery and water reuse.
• Community-based water treatment.
• Membrane-based water and wastewater processing, such as forward osmosis processes (but excluding desalination i.e. water desalting).
• Biological wastewater processing (aerobic and anaerobic) and biofilm reactors.
• Nanotechnology-based water processing.
• Industrial effluent processing and resource recovery/recycle.
• Advanced oxidation processing.
• Electro-based water processing.
• Coagulation, precipitation and flocculation processes.
• Fixed-bed adsorption processes.
• Renewable energy powered water processing.
• Development and application of novel materials for water processing.

We are particularly interested in the growth of submissions which emphasize the process engineering aspects of water sustainability, focusing on issues related to the reclamation, reuse and recycling of water, materials and energy from alternative sources, including fit-for-purpose treatment processes and technologies with reduced energy and chemical consumption, lower environmental/carbon footprint, and greater social benefit.

We are also interested in those submissions which explore emerging areas of research focus; please look out for our 'calls for papers' to be published in special issues. If you are interested in submitting a critical and insightful review paper on the state-of-the-art in a relevant area, we encourage you to contact one of the Editors-in-Chief first to discuss your proposal.

Please that, due to space limitations, we are unable to accept submissions which involve fundamental batch studies without a focus on engineering application. Common examples of this would include; studies of batch/static adsorption of model contaminants on adsorbents without dynamic flow studies, batch studies of photo-catalysts modified to operate in visible light for model contaminant degradation, microbiological studies without a strong link to biological processing, membrane fabrication without an application study.

Editorial board

Co-Editors in Chief

• Nick Hankins
  Department. of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3PJ, United Kingdom
• Abdul Wahab Mohammad PhD
  Research Centre for Sustainable Process Technology Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 43600 UKM Selangor, Malaysia
• Xiaochang C. Wang
  Xi'an University of Architecture & Technology, School of Environmental & Municipal Engineering, No. 13, Yanta Road, 710055, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China

Editors

• Rong Chen PhD
  Xi'an University of Architecture & Technology, School of Environmental & Municipal Engineering, Xi'an, China
• Ludovic Dumee
  Institute for Frontier Materials, Geelong, Australia
• Professor Wenshan Guo PhD
  University of Technology Sydney Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, Sydney, Australia
• Chong Tzyy Haur PhD
  Nanyang Technological University School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Singapore, Singapore
• Guangming Jiang
  University of Wollongong, School of Civil, Mining and Environmental Engineering, Wollongong, Australia
• Shihong Lin PhD
  Vanderbilt University, Nashville, United States
• Fangang Meng
  Sun Yat-Sen University School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Guangzhou, China
• Huu Hao Ngo
  University of Technology Sydney School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Broadway, Australia

Editorial Board Members

• Ahmed Abdel-Wahab PhD
  Texas A&M University at Qatar, Department of Chemical Engineering, Doha, Qatar
• A. Latif Abdul Latif binAhmad
  Science University of Malaysia, Minden, Malaysia
• Catherine Biggs
  The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom
• Luiza Campos PhD, DIC, FRSC, MSc, BEng
  University College London, London, United Kingdom
• Chart Chiemchaisri D.Eng.
  Kasetsart University Department of Environmental Engineering, Bangkok, Thailand
• Eduardo Cleto-Pires
  University of Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
• Robert Field
  University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
• Viatcheslav Freger
  Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
• Vitaly Gitis
  Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er Sheva, Israel
• Nigel Graham
  Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
• Faisal Hai PhD
  University of Wollongong, School of Civil, Mining and Environmental Engineering, Wollongong, Australia
• Bassim H Hameed
  Qatar University, Doha, Qatar
• Shadi W. Hasan PhD
  Khalifa University of Science Technology - Abu Dhabi SAN Campus, Department of Chemical Engineering, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
• Raed Hashaikeh
  New York University - Abu Dhabi Campus, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
• Saad Jasim PhD, PEng
  SJ Environmental Consultants Inc, Windsor, Ontario, Canada
• Nalan Kabay
  Ege University, İzmir, Turkey
• J. Sher Khan
  National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Rāwalpindi, Pakistan
• Gopalakrishnan Kumar PhD
  University of Stavanger, Department of Chemistry, Bioscience and Environmental Engineering, Stavanger, Norway
• Assoc. Professor Zhongfang Lei PhD
  University of Tsukuba Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Tsukuba, Japan
• Torove Leiknes
  King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
• Jianxin Li PhD
  Tianjin Polytechnic University State Key Laboratory of Separation Membranes and Membrane Processes, Tianjin, China
• Jixiang Li PhD
  Green Chemical Engineering Technology Research and Development Center, Shanghai, China
• Zainuddin Manan
  University of Technology Malaysia, Skudai, Malaysia
• Graeme Millar
  Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
• Mu Naushad
  King Saud University Department of Chemistry, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
• Tjandra Setiadi PhD
  Bandung Institute of Technology Department of Chemical Engineering, Bandung, Indonesia
• Chuyang Y. Tang PhD
  University of Hong Kong Department of Civil Engineering, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
• Yinhua Wan
  Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
• Shaobin Wang
  The University of Adelaide School of Chemical Engineering and Advanced Materials, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
• Ta Yeong Wu
  Monash University - Malaysia Campus, Bandar Sunway, Malaysia
• Guillermo Zaragoza
  Almeria Solar Platform, Tabernas, Spain