Journal
ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY LETTERS
Volume 20, Issue 3, Pages 1929-1963Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s10311-022-01416-x
Keywords
Chloramphenicol; Occurrence; Toxicity; Adsorption techniques; Mechanisms; Mathematic models
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This article reviews the occurrence, toxicity, and removal of chloramphenicol in water environments, with a focus on adsorption techniques. Various adsorbents, such as porous carbon, show excellent adsorption capacities. Different factors, such as dose, pH, temperature, initial concentration, and contact time, affect the adsorption process.
Chloramphenicol is a broad-spectrum bacterial antibiotic used against conjunctivitis, meningitis, plague, cholera, and typhoid fever. As a consequence, chloramphenicol ends up polluting the aquatic environment, wastewater treatment plants, and hospital wastewaters, thus disrupting ecosystems and inducing microbial resistance. Here, we review the occurrence, toxicity, and removal of chloramphenicol with emphasis on adsorption techniques. We present the adsorption performance of adsorbents such as biochar, activated carbon, porous carbon, metal-organic framework, composites, zeolites, minerals, molecularly imprinted polymers, and multi-walled carbon nanotubes. The effect of dose, pH, temperature, initial concentration, and contact time is discussed. Adsorption is controlled by pi-pi interactions, donor-acceptor interactions, hydrogen bonding, and electrostatic interactions. We also discuss isotherms, kinetics, thermodynamic data, selection of eluents, desorption efficiency, and regeneration of adsorbents. Porous carbon-based adsorbents exhibit excellent adsorption capacities of 500-1240 mg g(-1). Most adsorbents can be reused over at least four cycles.
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