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Recycling of Expired drug (levofloxacin hemihydrate) as a potential Eco-friendly Inhibitor for Copper in Synthetic Acid Rain Solution (SAR)

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Last updated: 04 Jan 2025

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Environmental chemistry

Abstract

This study focused on the recycling of the expired Levofloxacin hemihydrate (LFH) for preventing copper (Cu) corrosion caused by synthetic acid rain (SAR) solution employing electrochemical techniques potentiodynamic polarization (Tafel Polarization) and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS); and chemical method (weight loss (WL)). Results showed that LFH is an efficient inhibitor for copper corrosion, and the inhibition efficiency percent (η%) reached 88.4 % at an optimum concentration (600 ppm) according to EIS measurements. The data of WL method revealed that the inhibition efficiency (η%) raised and the corrosion rate (kcorr) decreased with the concentration of LFH and vice versa with the temperature. It was discovered that the adsorption of the LFH on the Cu surface obeyed Langmuir adsorption isotherm. The Tafel curves demonstrated that this expired behaved as a mixed-type inhibitor. The LHF prevented corrosion by adhering to the metal surface, which was demonstrated by Scanning Electron Microscopy Conducted with Energy Dispersive X-ray (SEM-EDX), Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM), and Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FT-IR).

DOI

10.21608/aujes.2024.244204.1195

Keywords

copper, Acid rain solution, Corrosion inhibition, EIS, and Tafel

Authors

First Name

Atiat

Last Name

Montaser

MiddleName

A.

Affiliation

Department of chemistry, Faculty of Science, Aswan University, Aswan. Egypt.

Email

atiat70@yahoo.com

City

Aswan

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First Name

Mohamed

Last Name

ElMahdy

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-

Affiliation

Department of chemistry, Faculty of Science, Aswan University, Aswan. Egypt.

Email

mohamed_sarwat@aswu.edu.eg

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-

Orcid

0000-0003-2002-1784

First Name

Elsayed

Last Name

Mahmoud

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Department of chemistry, Faculty of Science, Aswan University, Aswan. Egypt.

Email

selkholy888@gmail.com

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Orcid

-

First Name

Abd El-Aziz

Last Name

Fouda

MiddleName

El-Sayed

Affiliation

Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, Mansoura University, Daqahlia, Egypt.

Email

asfouda@mans.edu.eg

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-

Orcid

0000-0002-3239-4417

Volume

5

Article Issue

1

Related Issue

46651

Issue Date

2024-03-01

Receive Date

2023-10-24

Publish Date

2024-03-01

Page Start

27

Page End

51

Print ISSN

2735-4229

Online ISSN

2735-4237

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https://aujes.journals.ekb.eg/article_345442.html

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Original Research

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1,615

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Publication Title

Aswan University Journal of Environmental Studies

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https://aujes.journals.ekb.eg/

MainTitle

Recycling of Expired drug (levofloxacin hemihydrate) as a potential Eco-friendly Inhibitor for Copper in Synthetic Acid Rain Solution (SAR)

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28 Dec 2024