Adsorption of Fluoroquinolone Antibiotics from Water and Wastewater by Colemanite.

ABSTRACT: Pharmaceutical residues in water and wastewater have become a worldwide problem with environmental and public health consequences. Antibiotics are of special importance because of the emergence of antibiotic-resistant genes. This study evaluates the adsorptive removal of four common fluoroquinolone antibiotics by using natural colemanite as an alternative adsorbent for the first time. Batch adsorption experiments were conducted for the mixture of fluoroquinolones as well as for individual compounds during the isotherm studies. Adsorption kinetic results indicated that the process followed the pseudo-second-order (PSO) model, while the Langmuir model described the sorption isotherms. The effects of pH and temperature on adsorption performance were determined, and the results indicated that

SUBMITTER: Hacıosmanoglu GG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9915184 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature