Preface

Abstract

Welcome to the Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Environmental Prevention and Pollution Control Technologies (EPPCT 2021), which was supposed to be held in Zhuhai, China during January 15 to 17, 2021, but was changed to be held online due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The online conference was of great success, totally beyond anybody’s expectation, having a diverse group of expertise and backgrounds. Not to mention that participants are geographically diverse. We are glad to confirm that such diverse expertise and backgrounds were connected, forming a coherent conference environment and creating synergistic learning and sharing.The meeting focused on the research fields of “environmental prevention” and “environmental pollution prevention and control”. The primary goal of the conference is to provide an exchange platform for experts and scholars in “environmental prevention” and “pollution prevention” as well as enterprise developers, to promote the exchange of new technologies for environmental pollution prevention and control at home and abroad, to explore the development path of ecological civilization construction, and to cope with new opportunities and challenges.This scientific event brings together more than 160 national and international researchers. During the conference, the conference model was divided into three sessions, including oral presentations, keynote speeches, and online Q&A discussion. In the first part, some scholars, whose submissions were selected as the excellent papers, were given about 5-10 minutes to perform their oral presentations one by one. Then in the second part, keynote speakers were each allocated 30-45 minutes to hold their speeches.In the second part, we invited two professors as our keynote speakers. Prof. Shanquan Wang, from School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-Sen University, performed a speech: Spatial distribution, bioconversion and ecological risk of halogenated persistent organic pollutants in contaminated urban rivers: a nationwide study in China. His study provided unprecedented insights into contamination, conversion and ecological risk of PCBs and PBDEs in nationwide polluted urban rivers in China. And then we had Prof. Tao Zhu from China University of Mining & Technology (Beijing). His research area is air pollution control and solid waste treatment and resource. Their insightful speeches had triggered heated discussion in the third session of the conference. Every participant praised this conference for disseminating useful and insightful knowledge.The proceedings are a compilation of the accepted papers and represent an interesting outcome of the conference. Topics include but are not limited to the following areas: Air pollution and treatment, Groundwater Issues, Soil Pollution and Treatment and more related topics. All the papers have been through rigorous review and process to meet the requirements of International publication standard.We would like to acknowledge all of those who supported EPPCT 2021. The help and contribution of each individual and institution was instrumental in the success of the conference. In particular, we would like to thank the organizing committee for its valuable inputs in shaping the conference program and reviewing the submitted papers.Committee of EPPCT 2021List of Committee member are available in this Pdf.