International Chemical Engineering Congress 2013: From fundamentals to applied chemistry and biochemistry

This thematic issue of the Comptes rendus Chimie is devoted to the 1st International Chemical Engineering Congress – ICEC’13 held from 16 to 19 December 2013 in Djerba (Tunisia). Fifteen papers, covering important subjects of wastewater and exhaust gas treatments, have been selected and after peer-reviewing eleven were accepted for publication. They are focusing on recent developments of effluents management for improving performance and minimizing the impacts of pollutants on air and water. The variety of operating techniques covers adsorption, photocatalysis, electrochemical oxidation, biological treatment, chemical looping combustion, ultrafiltration, and catalytic ozonation.