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ArticleEnvironmental science and pollution research international2021

Continuous adsorptive removal of glimepiride using multi-walled carbon nanotubes in fixed-bed column.

Ismail Badran, Obada Qut, Abdallah D Manasrah, Murad Abualhasan

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Article in Environmental science and pollution research international, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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4 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Ismail BadranDepartment of Chemistry and Earth Sciences, Qatar University, P.O. Box: 2713, Doha, Qatar. ibadran@qu.edu.qa.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1423-7124
Obada QutDepartment of Chemistry, An-Najah National University, P.O. Box 7, Nablus, Palestine.
Abdallah D ManasrahDepartment of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, University of Calgary, 2500 University Street NW, Calgary, Alberta, T2N 1N4, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2534-1739
Murad AbualhasanDepartment of Pharmacy, An-Najah National University, P.O. Box 7, Nablus, Palestine.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2083-856X
An-Najah National University · PSQatar University · QAUniversity of Calgary · CA

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Water pollution by emerging pollutants such as pharmaceutical and personal care products is one of today's biggest challenges. The presence of these emerging contaminants in water has raised increasing concern due to their frequent appearance and persistence in the aquatic ecosystem and threat to health and safety. The antidiabetic drug glimepiride, GPD, is among these compounds, and it possesses adverse effects on human health if not carefully administered. Several conventional processes were proposed for the elimination of these persistent contaminants, and adsorption is among them. Therefore, in this study, the adsorptive removal of GPD from water using multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNT) supported on silica was explored on a fixed-bed column. The effects of bed-height, solution pH, and flow rate on the adsorptive removal of GPD were investigated. The obtained adsorption parameters using Sips, Langmuir, and Freundlich models were used to investigate the continuous adsorption. The results showed that the drug removal is improved with the increasing bed height; however, it decreased with the flow rate. The effect of pH indicated that the adsorption is significantly affected and increased in acidic medium. The convection-dispersion model coupled with Freundlich isotherm was developed and used to describe the adsorption breakthrough curves. The maximum adsorption capacity (q

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Nanotubes, CarbonWater Pollutants, ChemicalWater PurificationAdsorptionEcosystemHumansKineticsSulfonylurea CompoundsglimepirideNanotubes, CarbonSulfonylurea CompoundsWater Pollutants, ChemicalContinuous adsorptionConvection–dispersion modelGlimepirideMulti-walled CNTWastewater

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