Comparison study for different adsorbents used to remove paracetamol from water sources
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Adsorption, Paracetamol, COVID-19, Activated Carbon, Wastewater TreatmentAbstract
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak has induced an unprecedented increase in the use of several drugs, especially paracetamol, because, for COVID-19 symptoms, paracetamol is recommended as the first-line antipyretic and analgesic medication. The excretion of drugs and their metabolites in stools and urine release these drugs into wastewater, surface waters, and groundwater. This study intends to examine the adsorption of paracetamol, one of the most used medications used during the COVID-19 pandemic, from water using different adsorbents, commercial activated carbon (granular and powder form), clay, silica gel, and zeolite. The experiments were conducted under constant conditions at room temperature 27oC, initial concentration of 10 ppm, speed of rotation is 200 rpm, the mass of adsorbents is 1 gm, pH 7.8, and volume of solution is 200 ml under different time intervals to study the effect of each adsorbent in the removal process. As a result of this work, activated carbon was the best adsorbent to remove paracetamol from water in both granular and powder forms, which gives the removal of 98.5% in 5 hours for granular and 93.33% in 1 hour for powder activated carbon. It is essential to improve the characteristics of activated carbon to reduce the process's time to make it more economical.
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