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Traditional and Novel Adsorbents for Antibiotics Removal from Wastewater

  • 1st Edition - December 12, 2023
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Seyedmehdi Sharifian, Mika Sillanpää, Neda Asasian-Kolur
  • Language: English

Traditional and Novel Adsorbents for Antibiotics Removal from Wastewater describes, in detail, the importance of removing antibiotics from aqueous systems, along with new informati… Read more

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Description

Traditional and Novel Adsorbents for Antibiotics Removal from Wastewater describes, in detail, the importance of removing antibiotics from aqueous systems, along with new information on their variation, solubility, toxicology and allowable concentration in groundwater. The book covers adsorption as an applicable method, highlighting its advantages and disadvantages. It investigates various adsorbents ranging from traditional activated carbons, modified forms of clays, metal oxides, polymer resins, and more advanced materials such as graphene-based, MOF, nano-matrices, and composite materials as potential sorbents for the adsorption of antibiotics from aqueous solutions.

In addition, the book covers biological microorganisms that have been used to remove antibiotics from wastewater and presents biopolymers, biowaste and living cells potentially and practically suitable for this purpose. For all adsorbents, the book explains preparation methods, main properties, modification techniques to increase antibiotic removal efficiency, mechanisms in antibiotic removal, advantages and limitations. It also presents adsorption-desorption in batch and continuous mode, optimized operating parameters, kinetic and equilibrium adsorption, and regeneration studies.

Key features

  • Provides production and modification methods of conventional and non-conventional adsorbent materials for antibiotics adsorption from aqueous systems
  • Considers the effects of antibiotics type and porous and chemical properties of adsorbents to improve the sorption capacity and ease of regeneration
  • Features recent advances in the use of biowaste materials and biosorption processes for green removal of antibiotics from wastewater

Readership

Environmental chemistry experts in academia and industry Professionals using adsorption applications to remove antibiotics from aqueous systems Undergraduate and graduate students of Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Environmental Science and Engineering, and Pharmacy Industrial managers who have wastewater treatment facilities, especially in the pharmaceutical industry, Municipal managers in charge of wastewater treatment plants, Professionals responsible for wastewater treatment in hospitals, Material production experts who are passionate about microporous and mesoporous structures for both catalytic and adsorptive applications, Experts in converting biomaterials into value-added products who are interested in learning about the latest advances in biosorption and the conversion of biowaste into adsorbents

Table of contents

1. Adsorption: a reliable solution for emerging contaminants removal

1-1 Emerging contaminants

1-2 Antibiotics: synthesized products for health or against health

1-3 Conventional wastewater treatment processes

1-4 Adsorption process is a possible solution?

1-5 Adsorption processes: from lab-scale toward industrial-scale

1-6 References


2. Adsorption process of antibiotics by carbon-based adsorbents

2-1 Introduction on the types of carbonaceous adsorbents

2-2 Carbonaceous adsorbents production and characteristics

2-3 Modification of carbonaceous adsorbents for antibiotics adsorption

2-4 Mechanisms of antibiotics adsorption by carbonaceous adsorbents

2-5 Regeneration of carbonaceous adsorbents

2-6 Conclusion and outlook

2-7 References


3. Adsorption process of antibiotics by clay-based materials

3-1 Introduction on the types of clay-based adsorbents

3-2 Preparation and characteristics of clay-based adsorbents

3-3 Modified clays for antibiotics adsorption

3-4 Mechanism of antibiotics adsorption by clay-based materials

3-5 Regeneration processes

3-6 Conclusion and outlook

3-7 References


4. Adsorption process of antibiotics by novel adsorbents

4-1 MOF adsorbents

4-2 Silica-based adsorbents

4-3 Metal oxide-based adsorbents

4-4 Polymeric adsorbents

4-5 Nano-matrices adsorbents

4-6 Other adsorbents

4-7 Conclusion and outlook

4-8 References


5. Biosorption process for antibiotics removal

5-1 Introduction on biosorption

5-2 Types of biomaterials used as biosorbents

5-3 Dead biomaterials for antibiotics sorption

5-4 Alive microorganisms for antibiotics sorption

5-5 Antibiotics adsorption by activated sludge

5-6 Conclusion and outlook

5-7 References


6. Hybrid technologies including adsorption for antibiotics removal

6-1 Introduction: Why hybrid process?

6-2 Adsorption/degradation hybrid process

6-3 Adsorption/membrane hybrid process

6-4 Conclusion and outlook

6-5 References

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: December 12, 2023
  • Language: English

About the editors

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Seyedmehdi Sharifian

Seyedmehdi Sharifian received his PhD in chemical engineering from the Vienna University of Technology and then worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Tehran. From 2018 to 2022, he worked as an assistant professor at the same university. He was the head of the Sustainable and Green Chemical Processes Research Laboratory. Now he is a postdoctoral research associate at Purdue University. His research interest is generally in separation processes in chemical processes. One of his major research interests is wastewater treatment systems by adsorption and oxidation processes. In addition to being the author of numerous scientific papers, he is also a reviewer for many relevant journals, mainly in the areas of wastewater treatment, water quality, oxidation processes, and processing of biowaste into value-added products.
Affiliations and expertise
Davidson School of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States

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Mika Sillanpää

Mika Sillanpää is a professor at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. His research centers on chemical treatment in environmental engineering, environmental monitoring, and resource recovery from waste streams.

Sillanpää received his M.Sc. (Eng.) and D.Sc. (Eng.) degrees from the Aalto University where he also completed an MBA degree in 2013. Since 2000, he has been a full professor/adjunct professor at the University of Oulu, the University of Eastern Finland, the LUT University, the University of Eastern Finland and the University of Johannesburg.

Affiliations and expertise
Professor, University of Johannesburg, South Africa

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Neda Asasian-Kolur

Neda Asasian-Kolur received her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the Amirkabir University of Technology in 2013. She has been an assistant professor at the University of Tehran since 2017, and is currently working as a post-doc at Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien). She is the head of the adsorption research laboratory at the University of Tehran, and every year many graduates complete their studies under her supervision. To date, she has authored many peer-reviewed publications on environment-related topics. Her research interests include wastewater treatment, adsorption processes, preparation, surface functionalization, and characterization of adsorbents/catalysts for environmental purposes. She is the reviewer of many well-known journals in environmental chemistry research fields.
Affiliations and expertise
•Technische Universität Wien, Institute of Chemical, Environmental and Bioscience Engineering, Getreidemarkt 9/166, A1060 Vienna, Austria. •Chemical Engineering Department, Fouman Faculty of Engineering College of Engineering, University of Tehran, Iran.

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