Comparative analysis of antibiotic residue removal efficiency of different type of adsorbents

Abstract

Present study is to compare the antibiotic removal efficiency of different antibiotics by different adsorbents. It used three types of adsorbents namely non-ionic adsorbent, cation exchange adsorbent and anion exchange adsorbent for five different types of anti-bacterial antibiotics. Measurement is done using uv-visible spectrophotometer. The study found that ionic adsorbents are better as compared to non-ionic adsorbent in removal of antibiotics. It is observed that sulphamethoxazole, penicillin, rifampicin and aspirin removal efficiency is better for anion exchange adsorbent, and for tetracyline removal is better cation exchange adsorbent.