Editorial Harmful Chemicals in the Environment 2016downloads.hindawi.com/journals/jchem/2016/6327312.pdf · Harmful Chemicals in the Environment 2016 JianLu, 1 PatrickC.Wilson, 2

EditorialHarmful Chemicals in the Environment 2016

Jian Lu,1 Patrick C. Wilson,2 Xianghua Wen,3 Qiang Jin,4 and Jun Wu5

1Key Laboratory of Coastal Environmental Processes and Ecological Remediation, Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research,Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yantai, Shandong 264003, China2Soil and Water Science Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA3School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China4School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China5Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82071, USA

Correspondence should be addressed to Jian Lu; [email protected]

Received 4 August 2016; Accepted 4 August 2016

Copyright © 2016 Jian Lu et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, whichpermits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Chemicals, especially synthetic chemicals, might post poten-tial risks to ecosystem and human health if they excessivelyexist in the environment due to overuse, accidental spill,accumulation, and so forth. Therefore, it is urgent andimportant to explore the chemicals in the environment. Thisspecial issue is aimed at providing useful information on ana-lytical methods for monitoring harmful chemicals in variousenvironments, pollution control processes and technologiesfor harmful chemicals, the fate of harmful chemicals innatural and engineered environments, and ecological risksposed by the harmful chemicals. Therefore, some submittedarticles are selected to show the current research frontiersin measurement, fate, ecological risks, and remediation ofharmful chemicals in the environment.

Nutrient control was extensively explored. Therefore, theinfluences of different controlled irrigation and drainageconditions on dynamics of nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P)were studied by S. Gao et al. and J. Cui et al. Controlledirrigation and drainage seemed to be an efficient method forcontrolling N and P.

Removal of heavymetal in water was tried using differentmethods. Y. Guo et al. reported a novel approach for remov-ing aqueousCu(II).They adoptedwheat strawwith alkali pre-treatment to adsorb Cu(II) under acidic condition and opti-mized alkali pretreatment conditions. J. Liu et al. investigatedadsorption properties of Cr(III) or Cr(VI) in the absence andpresence of Cu(II) onto kaolin under pH of 2.0–7.0. Theyfound that pH played a critical role in kaolin zeta potential.

Studies on organic pollution control were performedthrough different aspects. G. Zhu et al. used biologicalpretreatment reactors to remove organic pollutants fromeutrophic water of Lake Taihu. Biological contact oxidationreactors-cascade biofilm reactor (CSBR) was proved to beefficient in low-molecular-weight organic pollution. X. Bianand J. Zhang explore photodegradation of sulfadiazine underultraviolet (UV) light. The degradation of sulfadiazine inwater followed the first-order kinetics with a half-life of8.44min. Y. Dong et al. studied the promotion effect ofmethanoic acid onphotoelectrocatalytic degradation of fulvicacid. They also discussed the degradation mechanism. S. Liuet al. focused on the natural degradation and ecotoxicity ofnonivamide in seawater and tap water.

Ecological risks posed by pollutants were also paidattention to. J. Hussain et al. studied temporal distributionand ecological risk of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons insediments of Changdang Lake, China.

Z. Xu et al. brought us new knowledge on chemicalsin the tailings dam. They paid attention to permeabilitycharacteristics of tailings during chemical-physical cloggingprocess.

The articles of this special issue contributed to new infor-mation on monitoring, fate, risks, and treatment of harmfulchemicals in the environment. We hope this special issue willhave a long-term impact in the field of the environmentalchemistry and technology.

Hindawi Publishing CorporationJournal of ChemistryVolume 2016, Article ID 6327312, 2 pageshttp://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/6327312

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Acknowledgments

We would like to thank the Editorial Board for publishingour special issue.We thank the contributors for their valuableresearch articles submitted to our special issue. Special thanksand gratitude are extended to the reviewers for their criticaland timely assessments of each paper.

Jian LuPatrick C. Wilson

Xianghua WenQiang JinJun Wu

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