@JournalArticle {3321,
	title = {Antibiotic removal using functionalized polymeric membranes},
	journal = {Studies in Environmental and Animal Sciences},
	volume = {4},
	year = {2022},
	month = {2022-10-29 00:00:00},
	pages = {919 - 939},
	publisher = {Studies Publica{\c c}{\~o}es},
	abstract = {
The growing spread of pharmaceuticals in the environment resulting from discharges of domestic and hospital wastewaters (or from the pharmaceutical industry) has increased the aquatic ecosystems pollution, constituting a complex and challenging public health problem. Antibiotics are one of the most used groups of drugs in human and veterinary treatment, verifying that the control of the presence of these emerging micropollutants in water sources, as well as the mitigation of their harmful effects on human health have been somewhat neglected by water treatment facilities, and insufficiently investigated by the scientific community. In this sense, an experimental study was performed in order to evaluate innovative and sustainable technologies for antibiotics removal (oxytetracycline) from water.
This paper presents the development and assessment of one of these technologies, based on ultrafiltration applying polymeric membranes, some of which functionalized with nanoparticles of titanium dioxide (TiO2). The performed experimental assays aimed to characterize the permeability and hydraulic resistance of this membranes and evaluating the efficiency of OTC removal, including the beneficial effect of this photocatalyst on separation process performance. Although the removal efficiencies obtained are not satisfactory, contrary to those obtained in photocatalysis tests, there is a positive effect of the presence of TiO2 nanoparticles, since the highest removal efficiencies were achieved in the functionalized membranes.
},
	keywords = {antibiotics, Membranes, oxytetracycline, TiO2 nanoparticles, Water treatment},
	issn = {2764-0760},
	doi = {10.54020/seasv3n4-008},
	url = {https://ojs.studiespublicacoes.com.br/ojs/index.php/seas/article/view/887/801},
	author = {Duarte, A.A.L.S. and Ferreira, S. M. N. and Amorim, M. T. P.}
}