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Apple peels as a natural adsorbent to remove antibiotics from wastewater

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Last updated: 01 Jan 2025

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Environmental chemistry

Abstract

Many researchers are interested in learning how to remove antibiotics from aqueous solutions because it is a major problem of pharmaceutical contamination for the development of bacterial resistance. In this study, adsorption studies were performed to remove antibiotics using agro-food waste [apple peels residue (APR)]. APR has such great potential filter for water treatment applications. A new generation of adsorbents has also been investigated for the elimination of the medicines tetracycline and amoxicillin. Several methods, like as scanning electron microscopy (SEM), energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDX), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) and Brunauer−Emmett−Teller (BET) specific surface area , were used to investigate the physical and chemical parameters of the APR surface before and after adsorption. The results of the batch studies demonstrate that the Freundlich isotherm equations and pseudo-second order kinetic rate equations were better suitable models for simulating the adsorption with a maximum absorbance of 84.38% or 91.12% amoxicillin and tetracycline respectively. According to thermodynamic parameters, adsorption processes are absorptive and exothermic in nature where ΔH0 -1.57 and -0.773(kJ/mol) andΔS0 -0.011 ,-0.010 (KJ/mol) for Amoxicillin and tetracycline onto apple peels residue ,respectively . Last but not least, the data from this study also confirmed the n eed to pay attention to the use of agricultural waste materials as cheap lignocellulose sorbents that can replace expensive sorbents in wastewater treatment.

DOI

10.21608/ejchem.2024.259896.9128

Keywords

Apple peels residue, Agro-food waste, Water treatment, Bio-sorption, amoxicillin, tetracycline

Authors

First Name

Rania

Last Name

Ahmed

MiddleName

Mohamed

Affiliation

Department of Chemistry, faculty of science, Al-Azhar university (girls) ,Nasr city, Cairo, Egypt

Email

raniaamer845@gmail.com

City

Cairo

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First Name

alshimaa

Last Name

gomaa

MiddleName

hassen

Affiliation

chemistry , science, al-azhar university (girls), nasr city, cairo, egypt

Email

alshimaa@azhar.edu.eg

City

cairo

Orcid

0000-0001-9313-2608

First Name

amina

Last Name

elsisi

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Pro. Of physical chemistry, chemistry department, science faculty (girls), El Azhar university

Email

aminaelsisi.5920@azhar.edu.eg

City

cairo

Orcid

-

First Name

Asrar

Last Name

Elsayed

MiddleName

Gomaa

Affiliation

Faculty of Science – Al-Azhar University (Girls)

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asrargoma@yahoo.com

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-

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Volume

67

Article Issue

11

Related Issue

50157

Issue Date

2024-11-01

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2024-01-01

Publish Date

2024-11-01

Page Start

503

Page End

517

Print ISSN

0449-2285

Online ISSN

2357-0245

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297

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Publication Title

Egyptian Journal of Chemistry

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https://ejchem.journals.ekb.eg/

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Apple peels as a natural adsorbent to remove antibiotics from wastewater

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30 Dec 2024