(ISSN 2766-6190)
Advances in Environmental and Engineering Research (AEER) is an international peer-reviewed Open Access journal published quarterly online by LIDSEN Publishing Inc. This periodical is devoted to publishing high-quality peer-reviewed papers that describe the most significant and cutting-edge research in all areas of environmental science and engineering. Work at any scale, from molecular biology through to ecology, is welcomed.
Main research areas include (but are not limited to):
- Atmospheric pollutants
- Air pollution control engineering
- Climate change
- Ecological and human risk assessment
- Environmental management and policy
- Environmental impact and risk assessment
- Environmental microbiology
- Ecosystem services, biodiversity and natural capital
- Environmental economics
- Control and monitoring of pollutants
- Remediation of polluted soils and water
- Fate and transport of contaminants
- Water and wastewater treatment engineering
- Solid waste treatment
Advances in Environmental and Engineering Research publishes a range of papers (original research, review, communication, opinion, study protocol, comment, conference report, technical note, book review, etc.). We encourage authors to be succinct; however, authors should present their results in as much detail as necessary. Reviewers are expected to emphasize scientific rigor and reproducibility.
Archiving: full-text archived in CLOCKSS.
Rapid publication: manuscripts are undertaken in 12 days from acceptance to publication (median values for papers published in this journal in 2021, 1-2 days of FREE language polishing time is also included in this period).
Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief
Zed Rengel earned his B.Sc.(Honours) and M.Sc. degrees from Zagreb University (Croatia), and PhD degree from Louisiana State University (USA). He is full Professor of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition at the University of Western Australia (since 2001). Zed supervised 42 postdoctoral fellows, and 39 PhD, 17 MSc and 46 Honours students, and hosted 66 visiting scientists from all over the world. Zed was awarded 9 prizes, 28 fellowships and awards, 4 Honorary Professorships and 5 Visiting Professorships. He gave 50 invited keynote addresses at international Conferences and presented 322 invited seminars at 78 Universities and Professional Societies in 28 countries. Zed is the author/co-author of 400+ publications in peer-refereed international journals and 46 invited book chapters. He edited 8 books and 6 Journal Special Issues. Zed is co-Editor-in-Chief of Crop & Pasture Science (Australia). His h-index is 66 (Web of Science, all databases).Professor, Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, UWA School of Agriculture and Environment, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Perth, WA 6009, Australia
Research Interests: soil science; environmental science; roots, ion cycling in the soil-plant-microbe continuum; remediation of saline soils, cadmium, wetlands
Associate Editor
Mechanical and Construction Engineering Department, Northumbria University Newcastle Upon Tyne NE1 8ST, UK
Research Interests: Heat and mass transfer; Desalination; Cooling; Adsorption cycles; Economic analysis; Industrial system design
Editorial Board Members (67)
Center for Green Technologies, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Technology Sydney, 15, Broadway, Sydney, NSW 2007, Australia
Research Interests: Biomass conversion; Catalytic materials and processes for sustainable energy production; Hierarchical materials; Hydrogen energy; Material development for CO2 capture, ionic liquids, electrode for electrochemical energy devices and separation processes; Metal oxide and related compounds; Catalytic materials; Porous materials; Nanostructured materials; Nanomaterial synthesis, photocatalysis, nanocatalysis; Nanocomposite materials porous materials
Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Pavia, Via Taramelli 12, 27100 Pavia, Italy
Research Interests: photochemistry; electron transfer; photochemical processes; organic photochemistry; green chemistry; chemical engineering; energy
Lead Consultant,Tropical Coastal & Mangrove Consultants, 52 Shearwater Drive, Pakenham, VIC 3810, Australia
Sediments; Climate change; Estuarine and marine ecology; Biogeochemistry; Benthic ecology; Mangroves; Metal geochemistry
1: Department of Management and Law, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
2: Institute for Research on Innovation and Services for Development (IRISS), National Research Council (CNR), Naples, Italy
Research Interests: Exploratory Factor Analysis
Center for Environmental Remote Sensing, Chiba University, Chiba, 263-8522, Japan
Research Interests: Greenhouse gases; Carbon cycle; Methane; Remote sensing
Professor, Remote Sensing Laboratory, Department of Geography and the Human Environment, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
Research Interests: hyperspectral remote sensing, environmental monitoring; soil spectroscopy; precision agriculture; sustainability; soil mapping; spatial analysis
Honorarium Director of Research, École Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles (ESPCI-PMMH), 75005 Paris, France
Research Interests: dew water; condensation; phase transition; critical point; heat and mass transfer; sustainable development; experimental physics; wetting phenomena
Professor, University of the Study of Perugia - Department of Engineering, via G. Duranti n.93, 06125, Perugia (PG), Italy
Research Interests: Energy Efficiency in Building; Energy Saving; Energy Conservation; Sustainability; Sustainable Construction; Sustainable Development; Building Materials; Energy Engineering; Energy Environmental Engineering; Aerogel
Laboratory of General and Agricultural Meteorology, Agricultural University of Athens, 118 55, Greece
Research Interests: bioclimatology; agrometeorology; urban climate; Human thermal comfort; R-language; big data analysis
Department of Public Health, College of Education, Health and Human Sciences, The university of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996
Research Interests: Environmental impact on reproduction; Action of Endocrine Disruptors; Environmental contaminants detection
National Research Council, Italy
Research Interests: Sources of Technology; Evolution of Technology; Diffusion of Innovation; Environment & COVID-19; Evolution of Science
Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (ISAC), National Research Council (CNR), Str. Prv. Lecce-Monteroni km 1.2, 73100 Lecce, Italy
Research Interests: atmosphere composition; aerosol sources; receptor models; turbulent fluxes; particle deposition; nucleation
Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Research Interests: solid and structural mechanics; mechanics of materials; fracture mechanics; modeling and simulation; microsystems
Professor, CESAM, Departamento de Física, Universidade de Aveiro, Campus de Santiago, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal
Tel: +351234370276 / ext.23112
Research interest: Physical oceanography; estuaries and lagoons; sea level; coastal flooding; climate change; coastal zone monitoring; mixing and transport processes; tides; morphodynamic; numerical modelling of coastal zones; physical/biology/chemical interactions
Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of West Attica, Agiou Spyridonos 17, 12243 Egaleo Park Campus, Greece
Research Interests: Computational Intelligence; Intelligent Control; Energy and Indoor Air Quality in Buildings; Biomedical Engineering
Senior Lecturer, School of Civil, Environmental and Mining Engineering, The University of Western Australia, WA 6009, Australia
Research Interests: concrete technologies
Chemical Engineering Program, Texas A&M University at Qatar, Doha, P.O. 23874, Qatar.
Research Interests: Hybrid Water Desalination Systems; Physical and Chemical Water Treatment Processes; Urea Fuel Cells; Waste-to-Energy, Water Resources
Centre for Green Technology, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Research Interests: Alternative fuel; IC engine combustion; Biofuel; Biodiesel; Biomass; Air pollution; Energy conversion; Vehicle emissions
Institute on Membrane Technology (ITM-CNR), Via P. Bucci 17/c, Rende, CS, 87036 Italy
Research Interests: Membrane technology; Membrane preparation and characterization and their application in environmental filed
Professor, Laboratory of Silviculture, School of Forestry and Natural Environment, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, POB 262, Thessaloniki 54124, Greece
Research interest: Plant ecology; ecology; environment; environmental science; biodiversity & conservation; natural resource management; environmental impact assessment; vegetation; biodiversity; ecosystem ecology
Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS, 39762, USA
Research Interests: biofuels; biofuel production; biomass conversion; energy engineering; renewable energy technologies; energy; biomass; solar; solar energy; water and wastewater engineering
School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Chongqing University, China
Research Interests: Microclimate; Urban heat island; Urban ventilation; Outdoor thermal comfort; Urban heat mitigation and adaptation; Urban climate policy
Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716, USA
Research Interests: heterogeneous catalysis; adsorption; reaction kinetics; nanomaterials; sustainability; wastewater treatment; water treatment; environmental and water resourcesater Resources
Institute for Environmental Research and Sustainable Development, National Observatory of Athens, 15236 Athens, Greece
Research Interests: solar radiation transfer into the atmosphere; modification of solar spectrum; aerosol physical; chemical and optical properties; carbonaceous aerosols; aerosol climate implications; meteorology; air quality and natural hazards
University of Newcastle, Australia
Research Interests: Satellite remote sensing; Geodesy; Data Assimilation; Spatial sciences; Surveying
Director, Center for Energy & Environmental Sustainability, Prairie View A&M University, Prairie View, TX 77446, USA;
Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Prairie View A&M University, Prairie View, TX 77446, USA
Research Interests: Separation technologies for energy applications (e.g., CO2 capture, utilization, storage); energy and environmental sustainability; energy in transportation systems: electric, natural gas, and hybrid vehicles; water use in hydraulic fracturing; environmental impacts of energy production; environmental impacts of various alternate energy (biofuels, wind and nuclear energy) technologies; atmospheric interactions of fogwater and air quality; industrial waste separations; fate and transport of contaminants in the environment
Professor, Department of Geology, University of Patras, Rion, 26504 Greece
Research Interests: Earthquake Geology – Paleoseismology; Geology of Greece; Hazard analysis and secondary effects of earthquakes; Quantitative monitoring of post-earthquake landslides with the use of UAVs
Xiamen University, Fujian 361102, PR China
Research Interests: Treatment of heavy metals –contaminated wastewater using low-cost materials; Removal of recalcitrant organic compounds from hazardous landfill leachate; Application of ozone (O3) for the treatment of contaminated wastewater/drinking water
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University of Oviedo, C Julian Claveria S-N, Oviedo 33071, Spain
Research interest: Wastewater treatment; food engineering; valorization of food wastes; environmental assessment; microplastics
Institute of Methodologies for Environmental Analysis, National Research Council, Tito Scalo, Italy.
Research Interests: Optical and microwave remote sensing; Remote sensing of water quality; Remote sensing of natural and antrophic hazards; Remote sensing of ocean colour; Developing and assessment of advanced satellite data analysis methods
Lighting and Acoustics Laboratory (LIA), School of Engineering, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
Research Interests: Green Building; Sustainable Architecture; Renewable Energy; Energy Efficiency in Building; Sustainable Development; Building; Sustainable Construction; Green Architecture; Built Environment; Renewable Energy Technologies; Lighting Design; Light Pollution; Architectural Acoustics; Environmental Noise
School of Professional Education and Executive Development, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China
Research Interests: Air and Noise Pollution Control; Combustion; Energy Conversion; Engineering Design; Fluid Mechanics; Heat Transfer; Thermodynamics
Transportation Active Safety Institution, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis, Indiana, IN, USA
Research Interests: Lunar and planetary geology; Environmental remote sensing; global climate change
Xiamen University, Xiamen, China
Research Interests: Energy economics and policy
Professor, Department of Environmental Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 70101, Taiwan
Research Interests: Clean energy technology; environmental electrochemistry; environmental nanocatalysis; sustainable resources engineering; catalyst; mesoporous materials; fuel cells; hydrogen energy; heterogeneous catalysis; adsorption; nano-catalysis
Professor, Department of Political Sciences, Roma Tre University, Via G. Chiabrera 199, 00145, Rome (RM), Italy
Tel: +39 0657335347
Research Interests: Public finance; energy econometrics; environmental Kuznets curve; time series econometrics; panel data models; Machine Learning experiments; Artificial Neural Networks analysis; relationship among CO2 emissions, GDP and energy consumption
ETSI Industrial, Universidad Castilla-La Mancha Campus Universitario s/n, 13071 Ciudad Real, Spain
Research Interests: Digital Signal Processing; Operations Management; Simulation; Optimization; Change Management; Engineering, Applied and Computational Mathematics; Logistics; Product Development; Pattern Recognition; Business Development
Professor, Laboratory of Atmospheric Physics, Department of Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, PC 54124, Thessaloniki, Greece
Research Interests: meteorology; air quality; atmosphere; climate; climate change; precipitation; atmospheric physics; simulation; atmospheric pollution
University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy
Research Interests: Air-conditioning systems; Energy efficiency of buildings and related systems; Nearly Zero Energy Buildings nZEBs; Net Zero Energy Buildings NZEBs; Plus zero energy buildings; Condensation problems in the building envelope; Heat and moisture transfer in buildings; Applied thermodynamics and heat transfer for buildings and related systems
Professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Geophysical Institute and College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, University of Alaska Fairbanks, 903, Koyukuk Drive, Fairbanks, AK 99775-7320, USA
Research interest: Remote sensing; data analysis; atmospheric physics; climate change; hydrology; climate variability; precipitation; soil; environment
Associate Professor, Department Head, School of Social Safety and Systems Engineering, Hankyong National University, Anseong 17579, Korea;
Institute of Agricultural Environmental Science, Hankyong National University, Anseong 17579, Korea;
National Agricultural Water Research Center, Hankyong National University, Anseong 17579, Korea
Research interest: Climate Change; water resources management; water resources; evapotranspiration; water resources engineering; watershed management; rainfall runoff modelling; watershed hydrology; agriculture; agricultural environment; agricultural water
Department of Geography and the Environment, University of North Texas, Denton, TX 76203, USA
Research Interests: Soil moisture dynamics; Surface water and groundwater interaction; Surface water quality modeling; Remote sensing and GIS; Visualization and numerical modeling of vegetation dynamics and snow process
Assistant Professor in Flora and Phytogeography, Division of Plant Biology, Department of Biology, University of Patras, GR-26504, Rio - Patras, Greece
Research Interests: Biodiversity; plant species diversity; plant ecology; ecosystem ecology; biodiversity monitoring; biogeography; island ecosystems; conservation biology; conservation
Professor Emeritus, North Carolina State University Raleigh, Ocean Isle Beach, NC, USA
Research Interests: observations of and numerical modeling of atmospheric, oceanic, estuary, land and hydraulic inter-actively coupled systems; estuary and river plume dynamics; relationships between climate and weather coupled systems; wind-wave-current coupled interactions; precipitation and river discharge; climate conditions and weather events; climate, weather and implications for human health, etc.
Harvard University
Research Interests: higher education; sustainability; sustainable development; Sustainable Development Goals; change and transformation; universities; curriculum; teaching and learning; leadership and governance; partnerships and collaboration.
Senior Research Scholar, Energy Climate and Environment (ECE) Program, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Schlossplatz 1, Laxenburg A-2361, Austria
Research Interests: Science; Technology and policy focused on energy and environmental issues of developing countries; Energy economics; Renewable energy; Climate change; F-gases; Air pollution control; Human health
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117574, Republic of Singapore
Research Interests: nanomaterials; energy materials; clean energy; circular economy
Professor, Director of the Institute of Climate and Atmospheric Science, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
Research Interests: Biosphere-atmosphere exchange, boundary layer processes and mesoscale meteorology; Air chemistry studies in unpolluted and polluted areas (e.g. urban air quality studies in Munich, Berlin, Athens, Santiago de Chile, Mexico City, Doha, Los Angeles, Houston); Source apportionment for primary pollutants; Application and development of chemistry-transport modeling; Climate Change studies
Professor, Director of the Laboratory of Atmospheric Pollution and of Pollution Control Engineering of Atmospheric Pollutants, Department of Environmental Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, DUTH, Xanthi, 67100, Greece
Research Interests: atmospheric pollution; climate change, atmospheric physics; atmospheric chemistry; environmental chemistry; analytical chemistry; meteorology; environmental engineering
Laboratory of Separation and Reaction Engineering - Laboratory of Catalysis and Materials (LSRE-LCM), Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias s/n, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal
Research Interests: environmental chemistry; environmental engineering; analytical chemistry; sample preparation; chromatography; chirality; water/wastewater monitoring; water/wastewater treatment; biodegradation; advanced oxidation processes; removal of contaminants or emerging concern and antibiotic resistant bacteria&genes
Remote Sensing Team Staff, Meteorological Service of Catalonia
Research Interests: Severe weather; Radar; Lightning; Hail; Thunderstorm; Satellite; Heavy rainfall; Warm rain
Professor, Faculty of Built Environment, University of New South Wales, Sydney 2052, Australia
Research Interests: energy physics; built environment; urban heat island; urban physics; climate change
Dipartimento Energeia “Galileo Ferraris”, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Research Interests: Thermal-fluid dynamics; Advanced heat transfer problems; Bottom-up energy modelling; Superconducting cables; Nuclear fusion; Applied superconductivity; Cryogenics; NPP decommissioning
Professor, Division of Water Resources Engineering (TVRL), Department of Building and Environmental Technology, Faculty of Engineering, Lund University, P.O. Box 118, 22100 Lund, Sweden
Research Interests: water engineering; wastewater treatment; water purification technologies; advanced machine learning; aquatic ecosystems; freshwater ecology; water quality; regression analysis; multivariate data analysis; multivariate statistics
Professor, Chair of the Materials Science and Engineering Program. The Materials Science and Engineering Program, College of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA
Research Interests: Nanomaterials for Environmental and Energy Sustainability; Smart Building Skins, Energy Harvesting and Generation, Solar Desalination, Nano biomedicine
Senior Researcher, Environmental and Biological Sciences, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
Research Interests: climate change; biogeochemistry; biogeochemical modelling; GHG exchange; eddy covariance technique; agriculture; forestry; carbon and nitrogen ecosystem dynamics
Photocatalytic Treatment of Pollutants in Air, Renewable Energy Division, CIEMAT, Avda. Computense 40, Building 42, 28040, Madrid, Spain
Research Interests: Development of immobilized catalysts on different substrates; Development of adsorption-based hybrid photocatalysts and reactor design
Professor, Department of Innovation Engineering, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy
Research Interests: theory of shells, plates, arches, beams; generalized differential & integral quadrature method & finite element method (GDQM & GIQM & FEM); strong and weak formulation finite element methods (SFEM & WFEM); fracture mechanics; piezoelectric materials; stability of equilibrium; non-conservative forces; strong formulation isogeometric analysis; weak formulation isogeometric analysis
Professor, Graduate Institute of Bioresources, National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, Pingtung 912, Taiwan
Research Interests: Biomass waste reuse; Bioenergy technology development; Porous material preparation; Liquid phase adsorption and interface research; Bioenergy policy analysis
Section of Environmental Physics and Meteorology, Department of Physics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, University Campus, 157 84 Athens, Greece
Research Interests: climate dynamics; climate physics; climate change and variability; aerosols; ambient air quality; ozone-climate interactions; atmospheric physics and chemistry; nonlinear processes; artificial intelligence and machine learning; remote sensing
School of Mineral Resources Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Chania 73100, Greece
Research Interests: The beneficiation of solid fuels (coal, biomass, organic residues) and the new clean technologies for energy production; Pyrolysis, combustion, gasification and reduction of pollutant emissions from solid fuels; Coal/biomass characterization and physical and chemical beneficiation
School of Energy and Environment, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China
Research Interests: Metal ecotoxicology; Nanotoxicology; Estuary pollution
College of Ecology and Environment at Chengdu University of Technology, Sichuan Province 610059, China
Research Interests: Wastewater Management; Environmental Engineering; Water Treatment; Ultrafiltration; Wastewater Treatment; Water Purification; Membrane Technology, Membrane filtration with Organic Solvents
University of Newfoundland, St. John's, NL, Canada
Research Interests: Energy and Environment; Process Systems Engineering; Transport Phenomena; Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Sequestration
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