New Developments in Environmental Science and Engineering: Proceedings of the 2023 13th International Conference on Environmental Science and Engineering (ICESE 2023)

This book contains the peer-reviewed papers that were accepted and presented at the 2023 13th International Conference on Environmental Science and Engineering (ICESE 2023), held in Leuven, Belgium, September 8–10, 2023. The conference provides a forum for researchers and practitioners to address advances in the field of environmental science and engineering including problems, solutions, and research directions. The contents of the book cover emerging and diverse topics, including environmental systems approach, clean technologies, environmental restoration and ecological engineering, wastewater and sludge treatment, climate and climatic changes, atmospheric modeling and numerical prediction, waste minimization, recycling and reuse, solid waste management, carbon capture and storage, and sludge treatment and reuse.

Dr. Xueming Chen is a professor in the College of Environment and Safety Engineering, Fuzhou University, China. He received his PhD in environmental engineering from the University of Queensland, Australia, in 2017. He worked as a Marie Curie fellow and postdoc at the Process and Systems Engineering Centre, Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark, from 2017 to 2020. In the meanwhile, he has served as an associate editor for Frontiers in Microbiology and Cleaner Water. He is also an editorial board member for Science of the Total Environment, Journal of Environmental Management, Environmental Technology & Innovation, and Journal of Water Process Engineering. He used to be an associate young water professionals (YWP) member of the International Water Association (IWA) – Modelling & Integrated Assessment (MIA) Specialist Group Management Committee and is currently a committee member of the Water Treatment and Reuse, Chinese Society for Environmental Sciences. He received the prestigious JSPS Invitational Fellowship from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and was one of the 20 global recipients of the RINENG Young Investigator Award of Elsevier.