Evaluating the efficiency of different natural clay sediments for the removal of chlortetracycline from aqueous solutions
- Authors
- Al-Wabel, Mohammad I.; Ahmad, Munir; Usman, Adel R. A.; Sallam, Abdulazeem S.; Hussain, Qaiser; Binyameen, Ridwan B.; Shehu, Muhammed R.; Ok, Yong Sik
- Issue Date
- 15-2월-2020
- Publisher
- ELSEVIER
- Keywords
- Antibiotics; Isotherms; Minerals; Intercalation; Adsorption
- Citation
- JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS, v.384
- Indexed
- SCIE
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
- Volume
- 384
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/57649
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2019.121500
- ISSN
- 0304-3894
- Abstract
- Natural clay sediments were collected from ten different localities in Saudi Arabia (S-1 from eastern, S-2 to S-4 from middle and S-5 to S-10 from western regions), characterized and evaluated for their efficiency towards chlortetracycline (CTC) removal from aqueous solutions. Sediment S-4 exhibited highest surface area (288.5 m(2) g(-1)), followed by S-5, S-9, and S-1 (252.1, 249.6, and 110.4 m(2) g(-1), respectively). Sediments S-5, S-9, S-2, and S-4 showed the highest cation exchange capacities (CEC) (62.33, 56.54, 52.72, and 46.85 cmol kg(-1), respectively). The pH range of 3.5-5.5 was optimum for the highest CTC removal. Freundlich model was best fitted to CTC sorption data (R-2 = 0.96-0.99), followed by Dubinin-Radushkevich model (R-2 = 0.89-0.97). The sediments S-4, S-5, and S-9 exhibited the highest CTC removal efficiency (98.80-99.05%), which could be due to higher smectite and kaolinite contents, CEC, surface area and layered structure. Post-sorption XRD patterns shown new peaks and peak shifts confirming the sorption of CTC. Electrostatic interactions, interlayer sorption and H-pi bonding were the potential CTC sorption mechanisms. Therefore, natural clay sediments with high sorption capacities could efficiently remove CTC from contaminated aqueous media.
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