Effective Removal of Penicillin from Aqueous Solution Using Zinc Oxide/Natural-Zeolite Composite Nano-Powders Prepared Via Ball Milling Technique

Title:Effective Removal of Penicillin from Aqueous Solution Using Zinc Oxide/Natural-Zeolite Composite Nano-Powders Prepared Via Ball Milling Technique

Volume: 11 Issue: 2

Author(s): Peyman Khosravian, Majid Ghashang*Hamid Ghayoor

Affiliation:

• Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences, Najafabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Najafabad, Esfahan,Iran

Keywords: Adsorption isotherms, kinetic study, natural-Zeolite, penicillin, Zinc oxide/natural-Zeolite nano-composite, ZnO.

Abstract: Background: The widespread entrance of antibiotics from the pharmaceuticals industry and human medication into aquatic environment increased concern over public health. Due to the importance of the antibiotics removal, a considerable amount of patents reported the conventional methods for the removal of antibiotics from the wastewaters. However, newly of patents reported improvements in the removal capacity. The present study focuses on the removal of Penicillin using a nanocomposite of zinc oxide/natural-Zeolite.

Methods: A nano-composite of zinc oxide/natural-Zeolite was synthesized by mechanical method. The obtained microstructure was characterized by FE-SEM, XRD, EDX, and DLS techniques. The prepared nanocomposite is used for the removal of penicillin from aqueous solution.

Results: Two different phases were identified in XRD patterns as hexagonal ZnO and orthorhombic Zeolite with the average crystal size of 86 and 141 nm respectively. The prepared nanocomposite consists of uniform particles with the mean diameter of near 91 nm. The prepared nanocomposite is used for the removal of penicillin from aqueous solution. It exhibited high removal performance in adsorption of penicillin antibiotic. The effects of penicillin concentration, catalyst amount, and pH on the adsorption were studied. The equilibrium adsorption data were analyzed using Langmuir, Temkin and Freundlich equations at room temperature. The Langmuir, Freundlich and Temkin constants were determined as -1.93, 410.2, and 3.87 respectively. The adsorption of Penicillin is followed from Freundlich (R2 = 0.979) equation. Adsorption kinetics followed the intra-particle diffusion model.

Conclusion: A high efficient procedure for the removal of penicillin was developed using ZnO/ natural-Zeolite nano-composite as useful catalysts.

Cite this article as:

Khosravian Peyman, Ghashang Majid*, Ghayoor Hamid, Effective Removal of Penicillin from Aqueous Solution Using Zinc Oxide/Natural-Zeolite Composite Nano-Powders Prepared Via Ball Milling Technique, Recent Patents on Nanotechnology 2017; 11 (2) . https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1872210511666170105141550

DOI https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1872210511666170105141550	Print ISSN 1872-2105
Publisher Name Bentham Science Publisher	Online ISSN 2212-4020