11th IJERPH Webinar
Advances in Hydrodynamic Cavitation Applications for Environment and Human Health
The AHCA Topic introduced at MDPI, which I am serving as Topic Editor with my colleague Federica Zabini, responds to the need for the systematization of the knowledge about the emerging class of technologies and related methods based on controlled hydrodynamic cavitation processes.
As the class of processes showing unrivalled ability to concentrate energy in liquid media or liquid mixtures, hydrodynamic cavitation offers a convenient way to intensify and accelerate plenty of different reactions and transformations. Degradation of recalcitrant pollutants in waste streams, disinfection and sterilization, solubilization of biomass, integral extraction of natural products, are few examples of fundamental technical fields in which hydrodynamic cavitation shows higher process yields than competing methods.
Based on the interdisciplinary applications of hydrodynamic cavitation, it is not by chance that the AHCA Topic involves major MDPI journals across a wide range of topics and specialties: Antioxidants, a leading journal focused on micronutrients and their biological functions; Foods, with comprehensive coverage of the food products and technologies; IJERPH, which is rapidly growing in the cross-disciplinary fields of environmental research and public health; Processes, which hosts fundamental studies on improved or new technological processes; Energies, covering the broad and fundamental field of energy generation.
Although scalability up to virtually any production capacity has been convincingly proven, industrial applications of hydrodynamic cavitation methods and related technologies, either as single units or integrated in complex processing chains is still hindered by a lack of standardization both on the technological side and on the specific applications and products side. These fundamental issues require further and urgent research.
The goal of this webinar is to present the state of the art of few of the most important applications and perspectives of hydrodynamic cavitation for environment and human health. This goal will be achieved by the next speakers, all outstanding scientists across the world, who have brought fundamental contributions to the main topic and the different fields covered by both this webinar and the AHCA Topic, and paved the way to industrial applications of hydrodynamic cavitation.
Date: 9 March 2023
Time: 9:30 am CET | 3:30 am EST | 4:30 pm CST Asia
Webinar ID: 870 8850 4310
Webinar Secretariat: ijerph.webinar@mdpi.com