Abstract
The prevalence of toxic contaminants in water remains a huge challenge for water-supplying companies and municipalities. Both organic and inorganic (especially heavy metals) pollutants are often present in water distribution networks. The presence of these contaminants in drinking water poses a major risk to human health. Organic and inorganic pollutants often co-occur in drinking water networks. However, at present there is no water treatment intervention that simultaneously removes both organic and inorganic pollutants from water to desirable levels. In our laboratories, recent studies have shown that both functionalised and un-functionalised cyclodextrin (CD) polymers are capable of removing organic pollutants from water, with the functionalised CD polymers showing an enhanced absorption capability. Ionic liquids (ILs), on the other hand, have been reported to absorb heavy metals from aqueous media. In this paper, we report on the synthesis of several cyclodextrin-ionic liquid (CD-IL) polymers, a dual system capable of removing both organic and inorganic pollutants from water. This system has been tested and has proved to possess excellent capabilities for the removal of model pollutants such as p-nitrophenol (PNP), 2,4,6-trichlorophenol (TCP) and chromium (Cr6+) from aqueous media.Keywords: organic and inorganic pollutants, CD polymers, ionic liquids, CD-IL polymers
Highlights
Organic and inorganic water pollutants pose a major threat to human health even when present at low concentrations
We report on a technique that utilises cyclodextrin-ionic liquid (CD-Ionic liquids (ILs)) polymers for the simultaneous quenching of these pollutants from drinking water
This paper reports on the synthesis and applications of water insoluble CD-IL polymers in the removal of model pollutants (PNP, TCP and Cr6+) from water
Summary
Organic and inorganic water pollutants pose a major threat to human health even when present at low concentrations. Since water-insoluble CD polymers have demonstrated the ability to absorb organic pollutants from water even at ng∙l-1 levels and on the other hand ILs are able to remove metal ions Upon reaction with bi-functional linkers (HDI and TDI), the CD-IL complexes produced the corresponding water-insoluble polymers (Fig. 2).
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