ADSORÇÃO DE INTERFERENTES ENDÓCRINOS EM GRAFENO E DERIVADOS: AVALIAÇÃO TEÓRICA E EXPERIMENTAL

• Autor(a) principal: Jauris, Iuri Medeiros
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional Universidade Franciscana
• Texto Completo: http://www.tede.universidadefranciscana.edu.br:8080/handle/UFN-BDTD/572
• topic: Diclofenaco, Nimesulida, Nanomateriais de carbono, Cinética de Adsorção, Propriedades Físico-Químicas, Teoria do Funcional da Densidade.; Diclofenac, nimesulide, carbon nanostructures, kinetic of adsorption, physico-chemical properties, density functional theory.; Biociências e Nanomateriais

Various chemical pollutants and substances named endocrine disruptors compounds (EDCs) has become commonly detected in wastewater and even in drinking water in many countries. In contrast the adsorption technique has been considered by many researcher as a promising method to treatment and purification of wastewater, mainly due to its ease of operation, high efficiency and low cost. Meanwhile, carbon nanomaterials such as nanotubes, and graphene, have been reported in the literature as promising materials to adsorb and removing various types of contaminants from wastewater. From this perspective, the main goal of this study was the evaluation of the use of graphene, functionalized graphene and reduced graphene oxide (rGO), in the adsorption and removal of drugs in aqueous medium. The removal efficiency was measured using diclofenac sodium (DCL) and nimesulide (NIME) in aqueous solutions and analizing sorption equilibrium conditions as well as kinetics and adsorption isotherms in the rGO. At the same time, through ab initio calculations, computational simulations were carried out to better understand how the structural and electronic characteristics of the adsorbent material can influence the adsorption process. Thus, through the batch experiments, it was found that the rGO showed a good ability to successfully remove NIME and DCL drugs from aqueous solutions. The maximum percentage removal of DCL by rGO was 80.4% and 79.3% for the initial concentrations of 40 and 70 mg.L-1, respectively. The maximum sorption capacity for adsorption of the DCL drug at 25ºC was 59.67 mg.g-1. The maximum percentage removal of NIME by rGO was 92.2% and 82.9% for the initial concentrations of 40 and 70 mg.L-1, respectively. The thermogravimetric and FTIR spectroscopy analyzes revealed that DCL and NIME was successfully adsorbed by rGO. In addition, theoretical results showed that the interaction between DCL and NIME with pristine or functionalized graphene, occurs by physical adsorption, being maintained mainly due to π-π interactions and hydrogen bonding. The results provide valuable information for better understanding the behavior of physicochemical properties in the evaluated interactions. Based on these results, the ab initio calculations and the adsorption experiments point out that the graphene and functionalized graphene or rGO are promising materials for extracting DCL and NIME drugs from wastewater effluents.