Bibliographic citations
Celis, K., (2022). Eliminación del antibiótico Imipenem en el proceso combinado sono-foto-Fenton mediante la adición de ácido cítrico [Tesis, Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería]. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14076/24534
Celis, K., Eliminación del antibiótico Imipenem en el proceso combinado sono-foto-Fenton mediante la adición de ácido cítrico [Tesis]. PE: Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería; 2022. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14076/24534
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title = "Eliminación del antibiótico Imipenem en el proceso combinado sono-foto-Fenton mediante la adición de ácido cítrico",
author = "Celis LLamoca, Kevin Paul",
publisher = "Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería",
year = "2022"
}
In recent years, the worldwide usage of antibiotics and their low removal in conventional biological treatment plants have promoted bacteria resistance, becoming a threat to human health and aquatic ecosystem. Investigations have reported the presence of antibiotics in wastewater treatment plants, surface water, groundwater, drinking water and seawater. Hospital effluents contain higher concentration of antibiotics, and in Peru, there is no regulation that controls their discharge, which makes their treatment difficult. For this reason, this research presents a treatment method based on advanced oxidation processes such as sonochemical processes, as a tertiary or unique treatment method. In order to determine the optimal operational parameters, the ultrasound frequency and power were evaluated based on the oxidant production in distilled water,which were found at 578 kHz and 24 W, respectively. As well, iron (Fe2+) and citric acid (AC) dose were evaluated on the sono-photo-Fenton/ligand process in the elimination of imipenem at pH around 7, finding that the greatest removal of the imipenem was at the iron and citric acid concentrations of 5 and 0,64 ppm, respectively. Once the appropriate operational parameters of the combined process (sono-photo-Fenton/acid citric) were obtained, the individual processes on the elimination of the antibiotic imipenem were evaluated, finding that degradation kinetics were: sonolysis (kobs= 0,0051 min-1) < sono-Fenton (kobs= 0,012 min-1) < sono-foto-Fenton (kobs= 0,0178 min-1) < sono-foto-Fenton/AC (kobs= 0,0218 min-1). In addition, the matrix effect in hospital synthetic wastewater was evaluated, obtaining a decrease in the degradation kinetics of the antibiotic imipenem (kobs= 0,0076 min-1) with respect to distilled water, due to the presence of inorganic ions in the wastewater matrix. Finally, a referential proposal for industrial scaling was made.
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