Effective removal of levofloxacin drug and Cr(VI) from water by a composed nanobiosorbent of vanadium pentoxide@chitosan@MOFs

Abstract

Wastewaters is generally polluted with various inorganic and organic contaminants which require effective multipurpose purification technology. In this respect, a novel V2O5@Ch/Cu-TMA nanobiosorbent was constructed via encapsulation of nanoscale metal organic frameworks (Cu-TMA) into vanadium pentoxide-imbedded-chitosan matrix to comprehensively investigate its efficiency in removal of levofloxacin drug (LEVO) (e.g., organic pollutant) and chromium (VI) (e.g., inorganic pollutant) from water. Both LEVO drug and Cr(VI) adsorptions were correlated to pseudo-second order (R2 = 1) and Langmuir isotherm (R2 = 0.9924 for LEVO and R2 = 0.9815 for Cr(VI)). Adsorption of Cr(VI) was confirmed to be spontaneous and endothermic reactions, while LEVO was found to proceed via spontaneous and exothermic reactions based on the thermodynamic parameters. The emerged V2O5@Ch/Cu-TMA is regarded as an excellent nanobiosorbent for removal of inorganic contaminant as Cr(VI) from all natural water samples (tap, sea and wastewater) with percentages range 92.43%–96.95% and organic contaminant as LEVO drug from tap and wastewater (91.99%–97.20%).