Sustainable Removal of Antibiotic Drugs from Wastewater Using Different Adsorbents—a Concise Review

Abstract Uncontrolled use of antibiotics on humans, animals, and crops for various reasons pollutes clean water with antibiotic-laden wastewater. This causes a severe effect on the overall health and hygiene of living beings including the expansion of antibiotic resistant microorganisms. Only a fraction of the antibiotic drugs consumed by humans and animals are metabolized. The remainder is excreted and will often find its way into ground and surface waters and of course enters sewerage systems. Wastewater from pharmaceutical industries is another major cause of pollution of water bodies. Using this contaminated water for drinking or domestic use without proper treatment develops antibiotic resistance in the human body, ultimately becoming a severe health issue. Therefore, water treatment should be addressed as an essential and mandatory step to protect the environment and living creatures. Several treatment processes for wastewater are popular; among them, adsorption is one of the most cost-effective and efficient methods, which is also vastly used. This review article briefly discusses different adsorption treatment methods generally used for antibiotic-polluted wastewater. Moreover, this article focuses on different adsorbents available for wastewater treatment and discusses their advantages and disadvantages. Hydrogen bonds, π-π interactions, and hydrophobic interactions are suggested to be the significant probable mechanisms behind the adsorptive removal of antibiotics by respective adsorbents. The temperature and pH of the solution also play essential roles in the adsorption of antibiotics from pharmaceutical wastewater..

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Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:8

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Water conservation science and engineering - 8(2023), 1 vom: 06. Feb.

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Das, Soumyadeep [VerfasserIn]
Sengupta, Sonali [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Adsorbents
Adsorption
Antibiotics
Mechanism
Review
Wastewater

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10.1007/s41101-023-00180-5

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SPR049262769