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ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY
Volume 42, Issue 3, Pages 419-428Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/09593330.2019.1630485
Keywords
Photocatalysis; Titanium dioxide; polyaniline; toxicity; sulfaquinoxaline
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This paper investigates the residual toxicity of waters after photocatalysis treatments, finding that water treated with PANI/TiO2 at pH 12 is the least toxic to algae cells, while water processed by bare titania at acidic pH displays significant toxicity towards algae cells larger than that of the original SQX solution.
This paper addresses the residual toxicity of waters after photocatalysis treatments. The initial waters contain 7 mg L-1 of sulfaquinoxaline (SQX) which is a sulfonamide antibiotic generally recorded inside the water. The contaminated waters are treated by photocatalytic degradation process with bare titania and titania covered with polyaniline (PANI) conducting polymer. The degradation of SQX is conducted at different pH in order to find the optimal condition to obtain SQX concentration relatively equal to zero in the shortest amount of time. This occurs for PANI/TiO2 at pH 12 and TiO2 at pH 4. Toxicity assays (concentration of biomass, pigmentation tests, and cells counting) are undertaken on the microalgae Chlorella vulgaris in order to evaluate the residual toxicity of the 2 treated waters. The toxicity results highlight that the water treated by PANI/TiO2 at pH 12 is the less toxic towards the algae cells. The water processed by bare titania at acidic pH displays unneglectable toxicity towards the algae cells which are larger than the toxicity of the original SQX solution.
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