Low cost adsorbents for the removal of pharmaceutical pollutants from aqueous solution: Thymine drug as a model

Abstract

With the permanent rise of pollutants environmental, the threat to life human, fauna and flora too increasing. Removal of toxic pollutants by adsorption on Activated Carbon (Apricot stone) has shown immense potential. The experiments were carried out to drug uptake by Apricot stone activated by H2SO4. Deferent physiochemical parameters for example, contact time, initial Thymine drug concentration, weight of (AC) and temp. were investigated in system batch-adsorption. The equilibrium time at normal pH was found 2h. Result showed that the adsorption of Thymine drug increase with increase in primary concentration Thymine drug, and egestion time but decreases with the mass of AC, temp. of the method. The equilibrium data were estimated utilizing Freundlich, Langmuir isotherms. Langmuir, model best describes the uptake of Thymine drug. study the adsorption of drug from aqueous solution detect the potential of AC to be used as an substitutional, cheap, and benign environmentally adsorbent for purification water. The concentration of Thymine drug was measured before and after adsorption via utilizing UV-Visible spectrophotometer at 360 nm.