Removal of Contaminants of Emerging Concern from a Wastewater Effluent by Solar-Driven Heterogeneous Photocatalysis: A Case Study of Pharmaceuticals
Abstract The occurrence of emerging micropollutants (pharmaceuticals, pesticides, personal care products, industrial compounds, etc.) in the environment is considered a major threat to human health and aquatic ecosystems. These micropollutants enter the environment through anthropogenic actions and have been identified in surface, ground, waste, and even in drinking water, in quantities ranging from ng $ L^{−1} $ to µg $ L^{−1} $. Currently, the pollution of the global water cycle with persistent organic pollutants remains one of the major challenges of the twenty-first century. Most of these organic substances are only partially removed by conventional wastewater treatment plants. Particularly, considerable amounts of pharmaceuticals are used in human and veterinary medicine, which are not efficiently removed during conventional wastewater treatments and subsequently continuously enter freshwater systems and even agricultural crops. Accordingly, we have evaluated the effectivity of $ TiO_{2} $ as a photocatalyst in tandem with $ Na_{2} $$ S_{2} $$ O_{8} $ as an oxidant for the treatment of a wastewater effluent polluted with pharmaceutical (atenolol, carbamazepine, clarithromycin, erythromycin, irbesartan, and ketoprofen) residues. Results show that the use of solar heterogeneous photocatalysis by means of band-gap semiconductor materials, especially $ TiO_{2} $ in combination with a strong oxidant such as $ Na_{2} $$ S_{2} $$ O_{8} $, significantly enhances their disappearance from the wastewater effluent. However, the selected pharmaceuticals show a slow degradation in wastewater effluent compared to pure water indicating that the occurrence of dissolved salts and organic carbon in wastewater effluent noticeably slows down the efficiency of the treatment. A single first-order model satisfactorily explains the photocatalytic degradation of the compounds studied for both, pure and wastewater. In the case of wastewater effluent, the highest $ DT_{50} $ values were observed for macrolides (13 and 16 min for erythromycin and clarithromycin, respectively), while the other compounds studied showed $ DT_{50} $ values below 10 min. This methodology has a notorious interest in some areas of the Mediterranean basin with water shortage, such as SE of Spain, where more than 3000 h of sunlight per year are recovered..
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Water, air & soil pollution - 234(2023), 1 vom: Jan. |
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Pérez-Lucas, Gabriel [VerfasserIn] |
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