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Heterogeneous photocatalysis of moxifloxacin at a pilot solar compound parabolic collector: Elimination of the genotoxicity

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JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
卷 297, 期 -, 页码 -

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ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.113296

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Emerging pollutants; Moxifloxacin; CPC solar; Photocatalysis; Bioassays

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Photocatalysis using a CPC reactor with sunlight and artificial light effectively degrades MOX in water. Sunlight treatment eliminated acute toxicity for L. sativa, while the reduction in root length for A. cepa may indicate hormesis occurrence.
Photocatalysis has been applied for the elimination or reduction concentration of emerging pollutants in water. One of them, is the moxifloxacin (MOX), a fluoroquinolone that have a potential to develop resistant bacteria and have been present toxicity. The MOX achieves the environment due to inefficient wastewater treatment and incorrect disposal. Aiming to find a sustainable solution for photocatalytic process, compound parabolic concentrator (CPC) reactors have been proposed. In this sense, the present study investigates the application of CPC reactor for the degradation of MOX using sunlight and artificial light (UV-A lamp). In addition, the acute toxicity for L. sativa seeds and A. cepa bulbs, as well as the MOX cytotoxicity and genotoxicity for A. cepa root were investigated before and after treatment. The MOX degradation was around 65% using the sunlight and 44% with the artificial light. This difference was due to the kind of incident radiation (direct and diffuse), as well as the type of radiation (visible and/or ultraviolet) used in the processes. For L. sativa the acute toxicity was eliminated after MOX treatment using sunlight. A. cepa root length increased before the treatment and reduced significantly after it, what can indicate hormesis occurrence. MOX cytotoxicity was not observed. In contrast, genotoxicity assays showed high frequency of chromosomal aberrations for MOX solution, indicating elevated genotoxicity that was eliminated after solar treatment. The transformation products of MOX after CPC reactor solar treatment did not show cytotoxicity and genotoxicity in A. cepa and acute toxicity in L. Sativa. The results indicates that photocatalysis in a CPC solar reactor is efficient for MOX toxicity removal in the treated solutions.

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