Aims & Scope

Aims

The journal Advances in Water Treatment and Desalination (AWTD) is a gold open access, peer-reviewed journal that seeks to publish refereed original research papers, reviews, commentaries, short communications, letters to the editor, and conference proceedings on all aspects of desalination and water treatment technologies, focusing on both fundamental and practical studies. The journal is aimed at providing a comprehensive and inter-disciplinary forum for researchers, engineers, and industry professionals engaged in water research, to share and disseminate recent advances, accelerate innovation, and propose cutting-edge solutions to current challenges in water treatment, desalination, and related technologies. It is published quarterly online by Scilight Press.

Scope

Submitted papers are required to report significant and recent advances within the broad scope of the AWTD journal related to the science and technology of desalination, water, and wastewater treatment, including, but not limited to:

• Advanced processes and integrated technologies of emerging interest
• Removal of emerging contaminants from water and wastewater
• Water production for agriculture, municipal, industrial, drinking, and other uses
• Water resources
• Scale-up and desalination plant technologies
• Effective pre-treatments and post-treatments
• Brine mining, treatment and management
• Fouling and scaling phenomena
• New water technologies(membrane processes, electrochemical processes, thermal processes, oxidation processes, sorption/adsorption, etc.)
• Renewable energy in water treatment (solar, wind, wave, hydrogen, and salinity gradient power)
• Energy consumption, energy conversion, and energy recovery
• Sustainability, recycling, and circularity
• Green and sustainable materials
• Transport phenomena and mathematical modeling
• Simulation, optimization, analysis, and control of water treatment systems
• Machine learning, artificial intelligence, and the use of big data in water treatment and desalination