Removing tramadol hydrochloride from wastewater using kaolinite nanocomposite

Abstract

Pharmaceuticals Harmful Impact On Environment Are Classified and As Human Emerging Health. Environmental This Study Pollutants Aims to That Treat Have The A Tramadol potential hydrochloride (TH) in different water resources in Egypt. The identification and quantification of TH was explored using LC/MS/MS instrument. The study proposed kaolinite/ZnO nanocomposite (K/ZnO) as a new solution for TH treatment. The characterization study showed that the highest photodegradation activity was achieved in the case of K/ZnO40%. The photodegradation kinetics and thermodynamics are investigated. The obtained results reveal that Pseudo-first order model is well fitted with a correlation coefficient (0.990). Moreover, the positive values of ΔH and ΔS show that the photodegradation process is an endothermic reaction. Positive value of free energy indicates that the adsorption process is not spontaneous.