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Immobilized Heterogeneous Photocatalysis for Reuse of Water Contaminated by Recalcitrant Organic Compounds: The Case of Antibiotics

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Abstract

Photocatalysis has often being proposed to destroy micropollutants recalcitrant to biological treatment. However, the use of suspension of TiO2 nanoparticles at an industrial scale is not easy. The chapter reports on the evaluation of the efficiency of two photocatalysts (P25 and PC500) immobilized on glass plates and cellulose fibers for the degradation of three antibiotics (amoxicilline, sulfamethoxazole and tylosin) used in human and animal medicine. Although the degradation rates of these antibiotics observed with the immobilized photocatalysts are lower than those reported in the literature with suspended photocatalysts for the same molecules, the feasibility of their degradation has been assessed.

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Abbreviations

[AB]:

Antibiotic concentration

[AB]0 :

Initial antibiotic concentration

e− cb :

Electron in the conduction band

h+ vb :

Hole in the valence band

k deg :

Degradation constant

KLH:

Adsorption constant

r :

Rate of reaction

r0:

Initial rate of degradation

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Pons, MN., Le Frêche, A., Cortyl, A., Van Deik, J., Poret, M., Zahraa, O. (2014). Immobilized Heterogeneous Photocatalysis for Reuse of Water Contaminated by Recalcitrant Organic Compounds: The Case of Antibiotics. In: Fatta-Kassinos, D., Dionysiou, D., Kümmerer, K. (eds) Advanced Treatment Technologies for Urban Wastewater Reuse . The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry, vol 45. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/698_2014_321

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