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Isotherm, kinetic, and thermodynamic study of ciprofloxacin sorption on sediments

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In this study, equilibrium isotherms, kinetics and thermodynamics of ciprofloxacin on seven sediments in a batch sorption process were examined. The effects of contact time, initial ciprofloxacin concentration, temperature and ionic strength on the sorption process were studied. The K d parameter from linear sorption model was determined by linear regression analysis, while the Freundlich and Dubinin–Radushkevich (D–R) sorption models were applied to describe the equilibrium isotherms by linear and nonlinear methods. The estimated K d values varied from 171 to 37,347 mL/g. The obtained values of E (free energy estimated from D-R isotherm model) were between 3.51 and 8.64 kJ/mol, which indicated a physical nature of ciprofloxacin sorption on studied sediments. According to obtained n values as measure of intensity of sorption estimate from Freundlich isotherm model (from 0.69 to 1.442), ciprofloxacin sorption on sediments can be categorized from poor to moderately difficult sorption characteristics. Kinetics data were best fitted by the pseudo-second-order model (R 2 > 0.999). Thermodynamic parameters including the Gibbs free energy (ΔG°), enthalpy (ΔH°) and entropy (ΔS°) were calculated to estimate the nature of ciprofloxacin sorption. Results suggested that sorption on sediments was a spontaneous exothermic process.

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This study has been fully supported by the Croatian ScienceFoundation under the project Fate of pharmaceuticals in the environment and during advanced wastewater treatment (PharmaFate) (IP-09-2014-2353).

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    Dragana Mutavdžić Pavlović & Iva Šimić

  2. Department of Materials, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, University of Zagreb, Ivana Lučića 1, 10000, Zagreb, Croatia

    Lidija Ćurković & Josip Župan

  3. Department of Polymer Engineering and Organic Chemical Technology, Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Technology, University of Zagreb, Marulićev trg 19, 10000, Zagreb, Croatia

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The original publication of this paper contains an error. Table 7 headers should have a negative sign: - ΔG°, kJ/mol, − ΔH°, kJ/mol, − ΔS°, kJ/mol. The original article was corrected.

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Mutavdžić Pavlović, D., Ćurković, L., Grčić, I. et al. Isotherm, kinetic, and thermodynamic study of ciprofloxacin sorption on sediments. Environ Sci Pollut Res 24, 10091–10106 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-017-8461-3

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