Experimental data of electric coagulation and photo-electro-phenton process efficiency in the removal of metronidazole antibiotic from aqueous solution

Pharmaceutical products, particularly antibiotics, due to their cumulative characteristics, undesirable effects and creating drug resistances, as inevitably pollutants, poses a major concern in environmental issues. In recent years, advanced oxidation processes (AOP) have been considerably used for degradation of new and emerging pollutants such as residual medications and resistant compounds in water and wastewater. Present investigation evaluates the removal of metronidazole from aqueous solution by electro coagulation and photoelectrophenton processes. The data will be informative for environmental agencies, pharmaceutical companies and wastewater treatment companies for choosing it as a practical oxidation advance process for treatment of water polluted by resistant material (drugs and pesticides).


a b s t r a c t
Pharmaceutical products, particularly antibiotics, due to their cumulative characteristics, undesirable effects and creating drug resistances, as inevitably pollutants, poses a major concern in environmental issues. In recent years, advanced oxidation processes (AOP) have been considerably used for degradation of new and emerging pollutants such as residual medications and resistant compounds in water and wastewater. Present investigation evaluates the removal of metronidazole from aqueous solution by electro coagulation and photoelectrophenton processes. The data will be informative for environmental agencies, pharmaceutical companies and wastewater treatment companies for choosing it as a practical oxidation advance process for treatment of water polluted by resistant material (drugs and pesticides The study was bench scale that was done in a plexiglass batch reactor, equipped with two electrodes iron (anode) and graphite (cathode) and 4 UV lamps (30 W). Influences of solution pH, time, initial concentration of metronidazole, and electric power in the electric coagulation process and influence of solution pH, time, and initial concentration of metronidazole and electric power, concentration of hydrogen peroxide and intensity of UV radiation in the photo-Electro process on removal efficiency of metronidazole was investigated.

Experimental features
The removal efficiency of metronidazole investigated in Razi research center, Khorramabad Data source location

Khorramabad, Iran
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Value of the data
The data may be useful for future researches that aimed in pharmacy wastewater treatment. This data allows wastewater treatment plants managers and engineers to extend the practical usage of phenton process.
Our data showed that photo-electro-phenton process remove antibiotics from wastewater; an interesting issue for environmentalists who concerned about pharmacy wastewater treatment.

Data
This brief dataset describes the use of electro coagulation and photo-electro-phenton process for removing an antibiotic from synthetic wastewater. Table 1 shows physical and chemical properties of metronidazole. The photo-electro-phenton degradation system is given schematically in Fig. 1. The effects of pH, electric current intensity, H 2 O 2 concentration, UV irradiation, and metronidazole concentration on degradation of metronidazole are presented in Figs. 1-6 respectively (Fig. 7).

Experimental design, materials and methods
In this study, a Plexiglas reactor with working volume of 1 l was used. The rectangular reactor was equipped with two electrodes (iron anode with dimensions (120 × 5 × 120 mm)) and a graphite cathode with dimensions (150 × 120 × 150 mm) and a 5 cm distance to each other. The distance between the electrodes and the reactor wall was 1 cm. An air pump and a ceramic diffuser used for aeration [3]. At each stage, after setting the desired concentration of metronidazole, firstly, the sample pH and the electrical conductivity (1000 ms/l using sodium chloride) adjusted, and then 1 l solution was introduced into the reactor [3][4][5]. In addition, before the start of the process, the samples saturated with air blowing for 10 min. Metronidazole concentration measured using high     performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) equipped with detector (UV / VIS SCL-10AVP) and column (5 μm, 250 × 4.6 mm) at wavelength 230 nm [6].

Acknowledgements
This article is the result of master's thesis in Lorestan University of Medical Sciences. The authors thank all the authorities of Lorestan University of Medical Sciences for their assistance during the implementation of this study.

Transparency document. Supporting information
Supplementary data associated with this article can be found in the online version at doi:10.1016/j. dib.2018.03.003.