Investigating the Performance of Carbon Activated with Ammonium Solution in the Removal of Sulfanilamide from the Contaminated Water

Baratpour, Parisa; Moussavi, Seyed Gholamreza; Alahabadi, Ahmad; Shekoohiyan, Sakine

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

¹ MSc, Department of Environmental Health Engineering, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

² Professor, Department of Environmental Health Engineering, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

³ Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Health Engineering, Faculty of Health, Sabzevar University of Medical Sciences, Sabzevar, Iran

⁴ Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Health Engineering, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

Background & Objective: With industrial development and population growth, the emerging contaminants enter into the natural water resources. Therefore, in this study Adsorption potential of NH4Cl-induced activated carbon (NAC) was investigated to remove antibiotic sulfanilamide from contaminated water.
Materials &Methods: The effect of operational conditions including solution pH, NAC concentration, sulfanilamide initial concentration and contact time were studied.
Results: NAC and SAC had specific surface area of 1029, 1024 and mean pore volume of 2.64, 2.23nm, respectively. With increasing the NAC concentration to 1 g/L, sulfanilamide adsorption efficiency increased to 84.4% within 40 min. Then the adsorption slightly increased with the increase in the contact time to 120 min and reached to its maximum adsorption of 99.2%. The maximum adsorption percentage of sulfanilamide onto SAC under similar conditions reached to 49.2%. The kinetics analysis showed that experimental adsorption data for both NAC and SAC were best fitted to the pseudo-second-order model. The maximum adsorption capacity of sulfanilamide onto NAC and SAC, calculated by the Langmuir model, was 238.1 and 87/7 mg/g, respectively.
Conclusion: Generally, these results showed that NAC was an efficient adsorbent with high removal efficiency for eliminating the antibiotics from the contaminated water streams

Keywords

Main Subjects

Health and environment

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Journal of Sabzevar University of Medical Sciences

Investigating the Performance of Carbon Activated with Ammonium Solution in the Removal of Sulfanilamide from the Contaminated Water

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Volume 26, Issue 6
March and April 2020
Pages 797-807

Investigating the Performance of Carbon Activated with Ammonium Solution in the Removal of Sulfanilamide from the Contaminated Water

References

References

Volume 26, Issue 6March and April 2020Pages 797-807

Volume 26, Issue 6
March and April 2020
Pages 797-807