TITLE:
A Sewage Sludge Derived Composite Material for Adsorption of Antibiotics – Kinetics
AUTHORS:
Pengfei Zhang, Rui Ding, Mykola Seredych, Teresa J. Bandosz
KEYWORDS:
Sewage Sludge; Composite Material; Adsorption Kinetics; Antibiotics; Wastewater Treatment
JOURNAL NAME:
Advances in Materials Physics and Chemistry,
Vol.2 No.4B,
January
9,
2013
ABSTRACT: A novel sewage-sludge derived composite material was developed for the adsorptive removal of organic pollutants from water. In this study a batch adsorption study was carried out to examine the kinetics of antibiotics adsorption by this composite material. A pseudo-second order kinetics model fits the data extremely well, suggesting that chemical adsorption, rather than physical adsorption, is likely the main mechanism of the separation process.