BIOSORPTION OF AMOXICILLIN FROM CONTAMINATED WATER ONTO PALM BARK BIOMASS

Life Sciences-Antibiotics Removal

Authors

  • DAVOUD BALARAK Department of Environmental Health, Health Promotion Research Center, School of Public Health, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, Iran
  • ALI JOGHATAYI Student Research Committee, Qom University of Medical Sciences, Qom, Iran
  • FERDOS KORD MOSTAFAPOUR Department of Environmental Health, Health Promotion Research Center, School of Public Health, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, Iran
  • HOSSEIN AZARPIRA Department of Environmental Health, Faculty of Heatlth School, SavehUniversity of Medical Sciences, Saveh, Iran

Keywords:

Adsorption, palm bark, Batch studies, Isotherm,

Abstract

The adsorption of amoxicillin (AMX) onto palm bark from aqueous solutions was studied in a batch adsorption system. Factors influencing AMX adsorption such as initial AMX concentration (10–100 mg/L), contact time (10–180 min), and adsorbent dosage (0.5–5 g/L) were investigated. The maximum removal efficiency of AMX was 98.1% under optimum conditions of adsorbent dose 3 g/L, contact time of 90 min and temperature 25 0C and initial AMX concentration 10 mg/L. Adsorption isotherms models including Langmuir, Freundlich and Temkin were tested. It was inferred that the Langmuir models (with very high R2 values) were most  suited  to  describe  the  sorption  of  AMX  in  aqueous  solutions and the monolayer adsorption capacity of AMX was found to be 35.92 mg/g.

 

Published

2022-07-11

How to Cite

DAVOUD BALARAK, ALI JOGHATAYI, FERDOS KORD MOSTAFAPOUR, & HOSSEIN AZARPIRA. (2022). BIOSORPTION OF AMOXICILLIN FROM CONTAMINATED WATER ONTO PALM BARK BIOMASS: Life Sciences-Antibiotics Removal. International Journal of Life Science and Pharma Research, 7(1), 9–16. Retrieved from https://ijlpr.com/index.php/journal/article/view/1081

Issue

Volume 7 Issue 1, January - March 2017

Section

Research Articles
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