Abstract
Reliable data of antibiotic use and environmental discharge as veterinary medicine are essential to help countries raise awareness of the appropriate use, control, and correct water release. The first approach is to change the regulatory framework based on consuming information, use policy, and discharge laws. The important research contribution is a novel water treatment process to treat, remove, and reduce antibiotic concentration in discharged water, mainly those used in the animal protein industry. The low particle biochar added during the titanium isopropoxide hydrolysis reduces the titanium dioxide (TiO2) agglomerates and promotes the adsorption surface process. Such improved catalyst material enhances the solar decomposition efficiency to 93% from original oxytetracycline with better correspondence with the Elovich kinetics, intraparticle diffusion, R-P isotherm, and Langmuir-Hinshelwood model.
Highlights
Antibiotics save millions of lives by effectively fighting bacteriological diseases
80% of total antibiotic use comes from veterinary medicine, ac
The use of TiO2 integrated with the fine biocarbon promotes the water treatment efficiency and water quality polishment removing the antibiotics and its by-products in an efficient, low-cost process with renewable energy [7] [21]
Summary
Antibiotics save millions of lives by effectively fighting bacteriological diseases. The discovery was in the 1920s, and, over the years, the pathogen bacteria have changed to improve the adaptation and resist these drugs. The use of TiO2 integrated with the fine biocarbon promotes the water treatment efficiency and water quality polishment removing the antibiotics and its by-products in an efficient, low-cost process with renewable energy [7] [21]. The use of TiO2 biocarbon as an efficient catalyzer for the water treatment process will reduce the pharmaceuticals contamination in surface water resources in a sustainable low-cost way [22]. Aiming the promotion of the solar decomposition process sustainable, feasible and highly profitable, this research project searches the development of the TiO2 with biocarbon to improve the solar photodecomponsition efficiency promoting the antibiotics decomposition presents in farm effluents, treating the polluted discharge after reach surface water resources
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