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Grafted Pullulan Derivatives for Reducing the Content of Some Pesticides from Simulated Wastewater

Journal

POLYMERS
Volume 14, Issue 13, Pages -

Publisher

MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/polym14132663

Keywords

pullulan-based flocculant; insecticides; synthetic wastewater; flocculation mechanism; UV-Vis spectroscopy

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  1. Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digitization [PN-III-P4-ID-PCE-2020-0296]

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This article aimed to investigate the application of grafted pullulan derivatives as flocculating agents for the removal of pesticide formulations from wastewater. The results showed that these derivatives effectively remove pesticides under different conditions, and the mechanisms of pesticide removal were discussed.
The goal of the current article was to obtain data regarding the application of a series of grafted pullulan derivatives, as flocculating agents, for removal of some pesticide formulations from model wastewater. The pullulan derivatives are cationic polyelectrolytes, with various content and length of grafted poly[(3-acrylamidopropyl)-trimethylammonium chloride] chains onto the pullulan (P-g-pAPTAC)]. The commercial pesticides are either fungicide (Bordeaux Mixture) (BM) or insecticides (Decis (Dc)-active ingredient Deltamethrin, Confidor Oil (CO)-active ingredient Imidacloprid, Confidor Energy (CE)-active ingredients Deltamethrin and Imidacloprid and Novadim Progress (NP)-active ingredient Dimethoate). The removal efficiency has been assessed by UV-Vis spectroscopy measurements as a function of some parameters, namely polymer dose, grafted chains content and length, pesticides concentration. The P-g-pAPTAC samples showed good removal efficacy at dose(op), more than 94% for BM, between 84 and 90% for DC, CO and CE and around 93% for NP. The maximum percentage removal decreased with the pesticides (DC, CO, CE, NP) concentration declining; no effect of BM concentration in suspension on its removal efficiency process has been noted. Differences indicated by zeta potential and particle size distribution measurements regarding the pesticides removal mechanisms by pullulan derivatives (charge neutralization, bridging, etc.) are discussed.

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