The journal Water (ISSN 2073-4441, IF 1.687) is currently running a Special Issue entitled "Additives in Stormwater Filters for Enhanced Pollutant Removal". Prof. Dr. Glenn Brown, of the Biosystems & Agricultural Engineering, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, (OK, USA), is serving as Guest Editor for this issue.
We invite submitted papers on the use of filter additives in stormwater filters. Runoff from urban, industrial and agricultural lands negatively impacts water quality in many watersheds. Stormwater filters, a wide class of structures that range from large bioretention cells to small filter boxes, are designed to intercept stormwater and purify the majority of the flow before releasing it to the receiving surface waters.
While generally effective for particulates, filters have had mixed effectiveness for pollutant solutes. In some cases it has been shown that filters have actually increase the concentration of contaminants. Thus, there has been a steady interest in the use of filter media additives to increase the retention of pollutants.
For further reading, please follow the link to the Special Issue Website at: http://www.mdpi.com/si/water/stormwater_filters.
The submission deadline is 30 June 2017.
Water is fully open Access supported by the authors and their institutes. An Article Processing Charge (APC) of CHF 1400 currently applies to all accepted papers.