Journal
WATER AIR AND SOIL POLLUTION
Volume 228, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11270-017-3320-x
Keywords
Antibiotics; Adsorption; Kinetics; Nanotechnology; Isotherms; Remediation
Funding
- National Key Research and Development Program [2016YFC0204201]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21307097, 21677114]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [xjj2016046]
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Activated carbon has widespread application in antibiotic-loaded wastewater treatment in recent years, owing to its developed pore structure, high superficies reactivity, and excellent mechanical and chemical stability. In this work, sorption experiments of four representative antibiotics, including sulfadiazine (SDZ), norfloxacin (NOR), metronidazole (MDE), and tetracycline (TC), over granular activated carbon (GAC), which was made from maize straw, were firstly studied. Kinetics, mechanism, and isotherm models related to the sorption process were employed. Results revealed that the sorption capacity by GAC followed the order SDZ > NOR > MDE > TC. The sorption kinetics of the four antibiotics well conformed to the pseudo-second-order model. Both the Weber-Morris intraparticle diffusion and Boyd kinetic models conveyed the information that film diffusion was dominant in the sorption process. The sorption isotherm was better fitted to the Langmuir model. This research may pave a basic way for removing antibiotics in municipal and industrial wastewater by activated carbon.
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