Iron/zinc and phosphoric acid modified sludge biochar as an efficient adsorbent for fluoroquinolones antibiotics removal.

Ecotoxicol Environ Saf

Hubei Key Laboratory of Mineral Resources Processing and Environment, School of Resources and Environmental Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Silicate Materials for Architectures, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, 430070, China; The James Hutton Institute, Craigiebuckler, Aberdeen, AB15 8QH, UK. Electronic address:

Published: June 2020

Iron/zinc (Fe/Zn), phosphoric acid (HPO) or in combination (Fe/Zn + HPO) modified sludge biochar (SBC) were prepared and tested in this study to adsorb fluoroquinolones antibiotics including ciprofloxacin (CIP), norfloxacin (NOR) and ofloxacin (OFL) from water. Fe/Zn + HPO-SBC had an increased surface area (S), total pore volume (V), mesoporous volume (V), pore diameter (D) and oxygen-containing functional groups. It exhibited superior adsorption performance for CIP, NOR and OFL with the maximum adsorption amount of 83.7, 39.3, 25.4 mg g, respectively. Pseudo-second kinetic and Freundlich isotherm model presented the better fitting. The results of models and characterization analysis in combination indicated that physisorption and chemisorption, including pore filling, hydrogen bonding, π-π interaction, electrostatic interaction and functional groups complexation on a heterogeneous surface were the dominant process and mechanism. Liquid film diffusion was the main rate-limiting step. The adsorption process of CIP, NOR and OFL onto Fe/Zn + HPO-SBC were a spontaneous endothermic process. This study demonstrated that Fe/Zn + HPO modified SBC exhibited high adsorption capacity, which was a promising adsorbent for fluoroquinolones as well as for other antibiotics effective removal from waters.

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