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JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
Volume 183, Issue 1-3, Pages 309-314Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2010.07.025
Keywords
Antibiotics; Cation exchange; Ciprofloxacin; Clay; Montmorillonite
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- National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Taiwan
- National Science Council, Taiwan [NSC97-2116-M-006-001]
- Instrument Platform for Enhancing Geochemical Studies [NSC97-2745-M-002-008]
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Exploring the interactions between antibiotics and soils/minerals is of great importance in resolving their fate, transport, and elimination in the environment due to their frequent detection in wastewater, river water, sewage sludge and soils. This study focused on determining the adsorption properties and mechanisms of interaction between antibiotic ciprofloxacin and montmorillonite (SAz-1), a swelling dioctahedral mineral with Ca2+ as the main interlayer cation. In acidic and neutral aqueous solutions, a stoichiometric exchange between ciprofloxacin and interlayer cations yielded an adsorption capacity as high as 330 mg/g, corresponding to 1.0 mmol/g. When solution pH was above its pK(d2) (8.7), adsorption of ciprofloxacin was greatly reduced due to the net repulsion between the negatively charged clay surfaces and the ciprolloxacin anion. The uptake of ciprofloxacin expanded the basal spacing (d(001)) of montmorillonite from 15.04 to 17.23 A near its adsorption capacity, confirming cation exchange within the interlayers in addition to surface adsorption. Fourier transform infrared results further suggested that the protonated amine group of ciprofloxacin in its cationic form was electrostatically attracted to negatively charged sites of clay surfaces, and that the carboxylic acid group was hydrogen bonded to the basal oxygen atoms of the silicate layers. The results indicate that montmorillonite is an effective sorbent to remove ciprofloxacin from water. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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