It is important that a pollution remediation system be able to cater for a variety of pollutant species present in the water to be treated. The aim of this study was to utilise a series of commercial zeolites (H-MOR, H-β, and H-ZSM5) for the concomitant adsorption and photodegradation of Cu and tetracycline (TC) molecules. The adsorbent cum photocatalyst was characterised by SEM and FTIR. FTIR confirmed the key functional groups (Si-O-Si and Al-O-Si) in the series of zeolites, and H-β zeolite was demonstrated to be the most effective adsorbent cum photocatalyst for both adsorption and photodegradation of Cu and TC molecules. These results were further corroborated from the pseudo-first-order rate constant values. Among the investigated zeolites, H-ZSM5 displayed the least adsorption and photodegradation performance for Cu and TC molecules. The photolysis reaction confirms the significant role of zeolites in the photodegradation test, as low performance was recorded in the absence of the zeolites.
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