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Removal of ciprofloxacin from hospital wastewater using electrocoagulation technique by aluminum electrode: Optimization and modelling through response surface methodology

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In this article, the authors used Response Surface Methodology (RSM) to evaluate the main effects of parameters, their simultaneous interactions and quadratic effect to achieve the optimum condition for EC process with removal efficiency of 88.57% under optimal operating condition of pH 7.78.
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This article is published in Process Safety and Environmental Protection.The article was published on 2017-07-01. It has received 156 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Response surface methodology.

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Electrocoagulation as an efficacious technology for the treatment of wastewater containing active pharmaceutical compounds: a review

TL;DR: The presence of emerging pollutants in the environment can pose potential risks to the natural ecosystem and hence, the efficacious removal of emerging contaminants, like pharmaceuticals, including anti-antimicrobial agents, is crucial as mentioned in this paper.
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Critical review of technologies for the on-site treatment of hospital wastewater: From conventional to combined advanced processes.

TL;DR: In this article , a review of different technologies for the on-site treatment of hospital wastewater (HWW) to remove pharmaceutical compounds (PhCs) as sustances of emerging concern at a bench, pilot, and full scales from 2014 to 2020 is presented.
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Pretreatment of Real Wastewater from the Chocolate Manufacturing Industry through an Integrated Process of Electrocoagulation and Sand Filtration

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated the efficiency of removal of suspended solids in terms of turbidity, color, and chemical oxygen demand (COD) when integrating the electrocoagulation process using aluminum sacrificial anodes and the sand filtration process as a pretreatment of wastewater from the chocolate manufacturing plant in Toluca, Mexico.
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A binary MOF of iron and copper for treating ciprofloxacin-contaminated waste water by an integrated technique of adsorption and photocatalytic degradation

TL;DR: In this paper, a metal organic framework MIL 53(Fe-Cu) was formulated via a single-step solvothermal route to treat pharmaceutical waste-containing effluent using a combined mechanism of adsorption and photocatalytic degradation.
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Degradation of Emerging Amoxicillin Compound from Water Using the Electro-Fenton Process with an Aluminum Anode

TL;DR: In this paper, the removal efficiency of the emerging antibiotic waste, amoxicillin, from aqueous media was investigated using the electro-Fenton method with an aluminum anode through the one-factor-at-a-time method, and all the experiments were performed in a useful volume of 750 ml.
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Electrocoagulation for the treatment of textile industry effluent--a review

TL;DR: The objective of the present manuscript is to review the potential of electrocoagulation for the treatment of industrial effluents, mainly removal of dyes from textile effluent.
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Decolorization of basic dye solutions by electrocoagulation: An investigation of the effect of operational parameters

TL;DR: The findings in this study shows that an increase in the current density up to 60-80 A m(-2) enhanced the color removal efficiency, the electrolysis time was 5 min and the range of pH was determined between 5.5 and 8.5 for two mentioned dye solutions.
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Adsorption and intercalation of ciprofloxacin on montmorillonite

TL;DR: In this article, the interaction and adsorptive removal of ciprofloxacin (CIP) with a sodium montmorillonite (MMT) were studied in batch tests and supplemented by XRD and FTIR analyses.
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Ciprofloxacin adsorption from aqueous solution onto chemically prepared carbon from date palm leaflets.

TL;DR: The thermodynamic parameters showed that the adsorption process is spontaneous and endothermic, and the equilibrium data were found to fit the Langmuir model better than the Freundlich model.
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Ozonation of ciprofloxacin in water: HRMS identification of reaction products and pathways.

TL;DR: In this article, HPLC-UV high-resolution mass spectrometry was used to analyze the degradation products formed during ozonation of an aqueous solution of the antibiotic ciprofloxacin in a bubble column.
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