TiO2-modified zeolites for fluoroquinolones removal from wastewaters and reuse after solar light regeneration (original) (raw)

Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, 2014

Abstract

Abstract Adsorption and photocatalytic removal from water of marbofloxacin (MAR) and enrofloxacin (ENR), two fluoroquinolone (FQ) antibiotics widely present in surface waters, were investigated on zeolite Y derivatized with three different TiO2 catalysts (P25 Degussa and TiO2 obtained by optimization of a sol–gel method). The prepared materials were characterized by X-rays powder diffraction (XRPD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), BET analysis and diffuse reflectance spectroscopy (DRS). TiO2-derivatization improved the adsorption capacities of zeolite Y for FQs and promoted the sunlight-induced degradation of FQs adsorbed (solid-state photodegradation), not investigated in literature yet. A large FQs removal (3 mg g−1) occurred in about 2 h (residual adsorbed FQs

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