Removal of caffeine, nicotine and amoxicillin from (waste)waters by various adsorbents. A review
| Autor: | Lotfi Sellaoui, Adrian Bonilla-Petriciolet, Ioannis Pashalidis, Alok Mittal, Ioannis Anastopoulos, Avelino Núñez-Delgado, Ioannis D. Manariotis, Tetiana Tatarchuk, Alexios G. Orfanos |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Nicotine
Environmental Engineering 0208 environmental biotechnology 02 engineering and technology 010501 environmental sciences Management Monitoring Policy and Law Wastewater 01 natural sciences chemistry.chemical_compound Adsorption Hazardous waste Caffeine medicine Waste Management and Disposal Ecosystem 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Pollutant Chemistry Life style Amoxicillin General Medicine 020801 environmental engineering Kinetics Environmental chemistry Water Pollutants Chemical Activated carbon medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | Journal of environmental management. 261 |
| ISSN: | 1095-8630 |
| Popis: | The fast growth in the anthropogenic activities, that involve a wide use of pharmaceuticals, has led to the appearance of new toxic and hazardous chemical compounds, called "emerging pollutants", which could cause unpredictable consequences to the ecosystems. The current review is focused on emerging pollutants occurring in food or air and include caffeine and nicotine, as well as on pharmaceuticals, in particular amoxicillin, and the concerns caused by its wide usage for medical purposes. This review, for the first time, analyzes and discusses the potential risks and implications of caffeine, nicotine and amoxicillin as emerging environmental pollutants, a field that remains underrepresented to date. Both caffeine and nicotine belong to life style compounds, while pharmaceutical amoxicillin is one of the very popular β-lactam antibiotics used to take care of human and animal infections. The review covers the toxic effect caused by caffeine, nicotine and amoxicillin on humans and animals and describes some of the main adsorbents utilized for their removal (e.g., grape stalk, tea waste, wheat grains, bentonite, activated carbon, acid and base modified grape slurry wastes, graphene oxides, modified graphene oxides, zeolites, etc.). The isotherm and kinetic models for the analysis of caffeine, nicotine and amoxicillin adsorption by different adsorbents are presented. The impact of pH, temperature, adsorbent dosage and thermodynamic studies were deeply analyzed. The review also discusses the mechanism of adsorption for the above-mentioned emerging pollutants, which includes π-π interaction, cation-π bonding, electron-donor and electron-acceptor forces, van der Waals forces, electrostatic interactions, etc. The present review has a potential value for chemists, ecologists, toxicologists, environmental engineers, and other professionals that are involved in environmental protection. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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