Traditional and Novel Adsorbents for Antibiotics Removal from Wastewater

Traditional and Novel Adsorbents for Antibiotics Removal from Wastewater describes in detail the importance of removing antibiotics from aqueous systems, taking into account their variation, solubility, toxicology and allowable concentration in groundwater, using reliable references. The book presents adsorption as one of the known applicable methods and properly highlights its advantages and disadvantages. It investigates various adsorbents ranging from traditional activated carbons, modified forms of clays, metal oxides, polymer resins to 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, Traditional and Novel Adsorbents for Antibiotics Removal from Wastewater studies 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.