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Adsorptive removal of antibiotics from water and wastewater: Progress and challenges.

Treatment Technologies for Emerging Contaminants in water: A review

Simultaneous removal of tetracycline and oxytetracycline antibiotics from wastewater using a ZIF-8 metal organic-framework.

NaOH-activated carbon of high surface area produced from guava seeds as a high-efficiency adsorbent for amoxicillin removal: Kinetic, isotherm and thermodynamic studies

Pharmaceuticals are environmental contaminants that have been widely detected in aquatic media. In this review, the occurrence of pharmaceuticals in the environment, its major causes, and implications along with effective procedures for their removal from contaminated water have been studied. Adsorption stands out as a promising treatment method, since it offers advantages such as lower energy consumption and simpler operation conditions in comparison to other tertiary treatments. Although commercial activated carbon is extensively studied as an adsorbent of pharmaceuticals, its large-scale application is limited by the high costs. Therefore, different nonconventional low-cost materials have been investigated and adsorbents based on clays, biochars, chitosan, agricultural and industrial wastes, and metal–organic frameworks have been addressed in many studies for pharmaceuticals uptake from water and wastewater. This article reviews key publications on this subject, discussing adsorption performance in ter...

Adsorption of Pharmaceuticals from Water and Wastewater Using Nonconventional Low-Cost Materials: A Review

The present study shows the applicability of carbon nanoparticles made from vine wood as an inexpensive adsorbent for the removal of Amoxicillin, Cephalexin, Tetracycline and Penicillin G from aqueous solutions. The activation of carbon nanoparticles was studied by aqueous solutions of NaOH, KOH, ZnCl 2 , NaCl and HNO 3 . The removal efficiency ( R %) of pollutants showed that NaOH can be used as an efficient, low-cost and environmentally friendly activator ( R % = 74–88). Infrared spectroscopy, XRD pattern, BET and BJH methods and scanning electron microscope (SEM) images were used to characterize the prepared carbon. The area and pore volume of activated carbon were obtained as 13.397 m 2 /g and 54.79 cm 3 /g, respectively. The SEM images showed a high porosity for activated carbon. Removal of antibiotics from aqueous samples was carried out using a modular method. The optimized parameters of pH 2, an amount of adsorbent of 0.4 g/L, a concentration of antibiotic solution of 20 mg L −1 , a contact time of 8 h and a temperature of 45 °C were obtained in a modular way. Kinetic studies confirmed that the adsorption followed second-order reaction kinetics. Thermodynamic studies revealed that the process was spontaneous and endothermic. The reusability of sorbent was achieved by using of NaOH (5 w/w%) solution and recovery time of 4 h.

Effective removal of Amoxicillin, Cephalexin, Tetracycline and Penicillin G from aqueous solutions using activated carbon nanoparticles prepared from vine wood

H.R. Pouretedal

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Effective removal of Amoxicillin, Cephalexin, Tetracycline and Penicillin G from aqueous solutions using activated carbon nanoparticles prepared from vine wood