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Amer AM, El-Dek SI, Farghali AA, Shehata N. Management of ibuprofen in wastewater using electrospun nanofibers developed from PET and PS wastes. CHEMOSPHERE 2024; 359:142313. [PMID: 38735499 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2024.142313] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/26/2023] [Revised: 04/22/2024] [Accepted: 05/09/2024] [Indexed: 05/14/2024]
Abstract
Electrospinning is a promising technique for the beneficial use and recycling of plastic waste polymers using simple methodologies. In this study, plastic bottles and Styrofoam wastes have been used to develop polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and polystyrene (PS) nanofibers using electrospinning technique separately without any further purification. The effect of the concentration onto the nanofiber's morphology was studied. The fabricated nanofibers were characterized using Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope (FE-SEM), Fourier Transformed Infrared Spectroscopy (ATR-FTIR), N2 adsorption/desorption analysis, and water contact angle (WCA). Furthermore, the prepared nanofibers were applied for the adsorption of ibuprofen (IBU) from wastewater. Some parameters that can influence the adsorption efficiency of nanofibers such as solution pH, wt.% of prepared nanofibers, drug initial concentration, and contact time were studied and optimized. The results show that the equilibrium adsorption capacity was achieved after only 10 min for 12 wt% PET nanofibers which is equivalent to 364.83 mg/g. For 12 wt% PS nanofibers, an equilibrium adsorption capacity of 328.42 mg/g was achieved in 30 min. The experimental data was fitted to five isotherm and four kinetics models to understand the complicated interaction between the nanofibers and the drug. Langmuir-Freundlich isotherm model showed the best fit for experimental data for both PET and PS nanofibers. The adsorption process was characterized by predominantly physical reaction rather than chemical adsorption for both materials. The reusability study revealed that the synthesized nanofibers maintain their ability to adsorb/desorb IBU for up to five cycles. The results obtained demonstrated that fabricated nanofibers from plastic wastes could perform promising adsorbents for the management of IBU in wastewater. However, further research is needed for the scaling-up the fabrication which is required for real-world applications.
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- Alaa M Amer
- Materials Science and Nanotechnology Department, Faculty of Postgraduate Studies for Advanced Sciences (PSAS), Beni-suef University, Beni-suef, 62511, Egypt.
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- Materials Science and Nanotechnology Department, Faculty of Postgraduate Studies for Advanced Sciences (PSAS), Beni-suef University, Beni-suef, 62511, Egypt.
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- Materials Science and Nanotechnology Department, Faculty of Postgraduate Studies for Advanced Sciences (PSAS), Beni-suef University, Beni-suef, 62511, Egypt.
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- Environmental Science and Industrial Development Department, Faculty of Postgraduate Studies for Advanced Sciences (PSAS), Beni-Suef University, Beni-suef, 62511, Egypt.
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Montesinos-Vázquez T, Pérez-Silva I, Galán-Vidal CA, Ibarra IS, Rodríguez JA, Páez-Hernández ME. Solution blow spinning polysulfone-Aliquat 336 nanofibers: synthesis, characterization, and application for the extraction and preconcentration of losartan from aqueous solutions. JOURNAL OF POLYMER ENGINEERING 2022. [DOI: 10.1515/polyeng-2022-0080] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Nanofibers are materials used in a wide range of applications due to their unique physicochemical properties. As an alternative to the most common method of its manufacturing (electrospinning) blow spinning has been used since it has greater production efficiency and simplicity. A wide variety of polymers is used for its preparation and can be modified to improve the interaction and selectivity toward specific analytes. Thereby nanofibers have been used for the extraction or removal of organic compounds such as drugs but there are still few reports of drug extractions like losartan. In this work polysulfone-Aliquat 336 nanofibers were prepared using the blow spinning method to extract and preconcentrate losartan. The studies showed that Aliquat 336 incorporation significantly improve the extraction of losartan with polysulfone fibers. Adsorption process was thermodynamically favorable with an adsorption capacity of 15.45 mg·g−1. Thus, it was possible to extract more than 92% of initial losartan using 10 mg of polysulfone-Aliquat 336 fibers (9 and 3.5% (w/v)), at pH 6 from deionized water and synthetic wastewater. Finally, losartan preconcentration was evaluated to facilitate its quantification using ultraviolet–visible spectrometry (UV-Vis), which allowed the determination of this drug at concentrations below the detection limit.
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- Tanese Montesinos-Vázquez
- Laboratorio 2, Área Académica de Química , Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo , Carretera Pachuca-Tulancingo Km. 4.5 , 42184 Mineral de la Reforma , Hidalgo , Mexico
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- Laboratorio 2, Área Académica de Química , Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo , Carretera Pachuca-Tulancingo Km. 4.5 , 42184 Mineral de la Reforma , Hidalgo , Mexico
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- Laboratorio 2, Área Académica de Química , Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo , Carretera Pachuca-Tulancingo Km. 4.5 , 42184 Mineral de la Reforma , Hidalgo , Mexico
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- Laboratorio 2, Área Académica de Química , Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo , Carretera Pachuca-Tulancingo Km. 4.5 , 42184 Mineral de la Reforma , Hidalgo , Mexico
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- Laboratorio 2, Área Académica de Química , Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo , Carretera Pachuca-Tulancingo Km. 4.5 , 42184 Mineral de la Reforma , Hidalgo , Mexico
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- Laboratorio 2, Área Académica de Química , Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo , Carretera Pachuca-Tulancingo Km. 4.5 , 42184 Mineral de la Reforma , Hidalgo , Mexico
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Hejazi Khah M, Jamshidi P, Shemirani F. Applicability of an eco-friendly deep eutectic solvent loaded onto magnetic graphene oxide to preconcentrate trace amount of indigotin blue dye. J Mol Liq 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2021.117346] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Dolatabadi R, Mohammadi A, Nojavan S, Yaripour S, Tafakhori A, Shirangi M. Electromembrane extraction‐high‐performance liquid chromatography‐ultraviolet detection of phenobarbital and phenytoin in human plasma, saliva, and urine. J CHIN CHEM SOC-TAIP 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/jccs.202100016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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- Roshanak Dolatabadi
- Department of Drug and Food Control, Faculty of Pharmacy Tehran University of Medical Sciences Tehran Iran
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- Department of Drug and Food Control, Faculty of Pharmacy Tehran University of Medical Sciences Tehran Iran
- Nanotechnology Research Centre, Faculty of Pharmacy Tehran University of Medical Sciences Tehran Iran
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- Department of Analytical Chemistry and Pollutants Shahid Beheshti University Tehran Iran
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- Department of Drug and Food Control, Faculty of Pharmacy Tehran University of Medical Sciences Tehran Iran
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- Iranian Center of Neurological Research, Neuroscience Institute, Imam Khomeini Hospital Complex Tehran University of Medical Sciences Tehran Iran
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- Department of Drug and Food Control, Faculty of Pharmacy Tehran University of Medical Sciences Tehran Iran
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