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JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
Volume 192, Issue 3, Pages 1088-1093Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2011.06.015
Keywords
Fe(3)O(4) nanoparticles; Chlorotetracycline; Adsorption; Regeneration
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- National Basic Research Program of China [2010CB933500]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [20837003, 20890111, 20921063]
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In this work, environmentally friendly magnetite nanoparticles (Fe(3)O(4) MNPs) were used to adsorb chlorotetracycline (CTC) from aqueous media. Fe(3)O(4) MNPs exhibit ultrahigh adsorption ability to this widely used antibiotic. The adsorption behavior of CTC on Fe(3)O(4) MNPs fitted the pseudo-second-order kinetics model, and the adsorption equilibrium was achieved within 10 h. The maximum Langmuir adsorption capacity of CTC on Fe(3)O(4) (476 mg g(-1)) was obtained at pH 6.5. Thermodynamic parameters calculated from the adsorption data at different temperature showed that the adsorption reaction was endothermic and spontaneous. Low concentration of NaCl and foreign divalent cations hardly affected the adsorption. Negative effect of coexisting humic acid (HA) on CTC adsorption was also observed when the concentration of HA was lower than 20 mg L(-1). But high concentration of HA (>20 mg L(-1)) increased the CTC adsorption on Fe(3)O(4) MNPs. The matrix effect of several environmental water samples on CTC adsorption was not evident. Fe(3)O(4) MNPs were regenerated by treatment with H(2)O(2) or calcination at 400 degrees C in N(2) atmosphere after separation from water solution by an external magnet. This research provided a high efficient and reusable adsorbent to remove CTC selectively from aqueous media. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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