Sustainability,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
15(16), P. 12639 - 12639
Published: Aug. 21, 2023
In
the
practice
of
medicine,
antibiotics
are
extremely
important
and
employed
in
treatment
infections.
A
lot
consumed
by
humans
excreted
via
urine
feces
into
sewage
systems
plants.
These
considered
to
be
non-biodegradable,
over
years
they
accumulate
aquatic
environment.
The
presence
water
resources
causes
emergence
antibiotic-resistant
bacteria,
posing
a
serious
threat
health
human
beings.
Water
bodies
must
adequately
treated
before
being
discharged
prevent
spread
antibiotic
resistance.
present
article,
sources
strategies
used
for
their
effective
removal,
such
as
ultrafiltration,
microfiltration,
nanofiltration,
membranous
biological
reactor
treatment,
Advanced
Oxidation
Process
(AOP),
Reverse
Osmosis
(RO)
Nano
sorbents,
discussed.
Conventional
wastewater
plants
not
able
eliminate
deposition/resistance
genes
effectively
efficiently.
this
regard,
adsorption
method
is
most
way
removing
from
various
sources.
Environmental Advances,
Journal Year:
2021,
Volume and Issue:
5, P. 100111 - 100111
Published: Sept. 10, 2021
Antibiotics
are
extensively
used
in
medicines
and
veterinary.
They
becoming
emerging
pollutants
for
soil
water
through
effluents
from
domestic
industrial
wastewater.
The
world
health
organization
(WHO)
has
identified
the
spread
of
antibiotics
resistance
as
one
major
threat
risk
global
public
future.
Therefore,
attentions
paid
to
remove
Various
methodologies
have
been
applied
treatment
wastewater,
those
including
biological,
physical
chemical
methods.
Advanced
oxidation
processes
(AOPs)
with
fast
reaction
rates
strong
oxidizing
abilities
received
more
among
all
methods
antibiotics.
This
review
presents
various
AOPs
such
Fenton
Fenton-like
oxidation,
ozonation
catalytic
ozonation,
photocatalytic
electrochemical
wet
processes,
their
brief
introduction,
principles,
main
characteristics,
factors
affecting
applications.
Furthermore,
current
applications
wastewater
analyzed
summarized.
drawback
advantages
strategies
addressing
them,
future
perspectives
challenges
argued
concluding
remarks
given.
Results in Engineering,
Journal Year:
2022,
Volume and Issue:
16, P. 100671 - 100671
Published: Sept. 28, 2022
Hospitals
played
vital
role
in
the
maintenance
and
sustenance
of
human
health.
However,
hospital
activities
generate
high
volume
toxic
solid
liquid
containing
diverse
inorganic,
organic
microbial
wastes
released
untreated
into
ecosystem.
The
management
wastewater
particular
has
been
a
major
source
concern
due
to
presence
unregulated
emerging
micro-pollutants
at
concentrations
range
ng/L
μg/L.
These
pollutants
low
concentration
exert
different
potential
health
effects
on
aquatic
species.
In
this
review,
formation,
composition,
properties
ecotoxicology
selected
(Norfloxacin,
Ofloxacin,
Ciprofloxacin,
Clofibric
acid
Carbamazepine)
were
reviewed.
review
also
elucidates
detection
quantification
micropollutants
by
Spectrophotometry
techniques,
Gas
Chromatography,
Ion
Chromatography-Mass
spectrometry,
High-Performance
Liquid
Chromatography.
Furthermore,
treatment
through
physical,
biological,
chemical,
adsorption
advanced
oxidation
processes
such
as
photocatalysis
photo-Fenton
including
their
operational
mechanism
provided.
chemistry
degradation
several
intermediates
It
was
found
that
conventional
methods
are
not
designed
for
effective
removal
these
because
they
exist
mixtures
very
exerts
toxicological
effects.
reveals
no
single
technology
can
effectively
detoxify
wastewater,
instead
combination
(phototcatalytic/adsorption
or
photo-fenton/adsorption)
most
appropriate
treatment.
Finally,
regular
monitoring
determination
physicochemical
ecotoxicological
parameters
recommended.
Arabian Journal of Chemistry,
Journal Year:
2022,
Volume and Issue:
15(8), P. 104014 - 104014
Published: May 30, 2022
Utilizing
a
new
microwave-assisted
method,
CuCoFe2O4@Chitosan
(Ch)
was
synthesized
as
very
strong,
magnetically
separable
nano-adsorbent.
The
magnetic
nanohybrid
adsorbent
characterized
by
FESEM
(Field
emission
scanning
electron
microscopy),
EDS
(energy
dispersive
X-ray),
Mapping
&
Linescan,
BET
(Brunauer-Emmett-Teller),
FTIR
(Fourier-transform
infrared
spectroscopy),
XRD
(X-ray
diffraction
analysis),
TGA
(Thermogravimetric
and
VSM
(Vibrating
Sample
Magnetometer)
techniques.
Then,
the
adsorption
process
of
Tetracycline
(TC)
investigated.
highest
percentage
pollutant
on
synthetic
real
samples
recorded
at
an
initial
concentration
5
mg/L,
pH
3.5,
contact
time
20
min,
dose
0.4
g/L,
temperature
25
°C,
93.07
%,
67%,
respectively.
TC
via
nanocomposite
consistent
with
Freundlich
isotherm
model
(R2
=
0.992)
pseudo-second-order
kinetic
(K2
0.267).
outcomes
thermodynamic
analyses,
which
included
entropy
changes
(ΔS
10.122
J/mol.k),
enthalpy
(ΔH
−1.975
kJ/mol),
Gibbs
negative
free
energy
(ΔG
−4.992
revealed
that
spontaneous,
favorable,
exothermic.
good
properties
allow
easy
separation
after
operation.
Finally,
efficiency
nano-adsorbent
in
removal
82.16%
four
adsorption–desorption
cycles.
Some
advantages
this
research
are
fast
green
method
for
synthesis
adsorbent,
kinetic,
to
separation.
Arabian Journal of Chemistry,
Journal Year:
2022,
Volume and Issue:
15(7), P. 103900 - 103900
Published: April 12, 2022
Emerging
pharmaceutical
ingredients
(APIs)
like
sulfamethoxazole
(SMX),
metronidazole
(MNZ)
and
ciprofloxacin
(CIP)
are
biopersistent
toxic
to
the
environment
public
health.
In
this
study,
UV/TiO2
photodegradation
was
applied
in
degradation
of
SMX,
MNZ
CIP
individually
a
mixture.
For
5
mg/L
SMX
solution,
about
97%
degraded
within
360
min,
which
reduced
80%
for
80
solution
at
same
TiO2
dosage
time.
The
maximum
removals
as
individual
components
were
100%
89%,
respectively
600
min
reaction
binary
mixtures,
highest
removal
(100%)
achieved
([MNZ]
=
[CIP]
40
mg/L)
mixture
120
whereas
degradations
96%
MNZ,
respectively,
even
after
experimental
time
concentrations.
tertiary
mixture,
99%
observed
(SMX
CIP]
20
[MNZ]
[40
min.
rate
0.01085
min−1
when
concentration
mg/L,
decreased
0.00501
indicating
decreasing
higher
concentration.
results
indicate
that
process
is
promising
apply
treatment
wastewaters.
