Electrochemical treatment of pharmaceutical wastewater through electrosynthesis of iron hydroxides for practical removal of metronidazole

Chemosphere
Saeid Ahmadzadeh, Maryam Dolatabadi

Abstract

Antibiotics as the severe contaminants of aqueous environments were received growing attention during the last decades. The current work is the first report on investigating the potency and efficiency of electrocoagulation process in the successful removal of metronidazole (MNZ) from pharmaceutical wastewater using response surface methodology based on central composite design. The applied method by optimizing the independent and combined effects of significant variables which affecting the EC process enhanced the removal efficiency of MNZ. Analysis of variance was applied to verify the significance of independent variables solely and their interactions. The best removal efficiency of 100% found under the optimal operating condition of initial MNZ concentration 21.6 mg L-1, pH 8.2, current density 6.0 mA cm-2, inter-electrode distance 3 cm, and reaction time of 14.6 min. Isotherm investigations revealed that the Langmuir model with the R2 of 0.994 best fitted to the obtained experimental equilibrium results. The fast adsorption of MNZ on the surface of Fe(OH)3 and [Fe(OH)2]+ with the equilibrium time of 15 min confirmed that the kinetics of the electrocoagulation process follow the pseudo-second-order model (R2 = 0.962). The el...Continue Reading

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