Although real wastewaters contain different types of contaminants, how do researchers remove a specific contaminant (such as the antibiotic amoxicillin) from the real wastewater?
I need the answer to this question for my future research.
Thank you
Javad Imanipoor MIPs, aptamers and ELISA, in order of increasing selectivity/sensitivity can all be used for selective extraction of antibiotics from any samples including environmental. see
Article Molecularly Imprinted Polymers as Extracting Media for the C...
Check this, it may helps.
Chapter Adsorption Technique for the Removal of Organic Pollutants f...
https://opus.lib.uts.edu.au/bitstream/10453/36489/5/Adsorptive%20removal%20of%20antibiotics%20from%20water%20and%20wastewater%20%28Accepted%20version%29.pdf
Moreover, selective extraction method is the best choice to remove targeted pollutant from aquatic media.
There is a lot of work on the adsorption of antibiotics on the RG. Would you like someone to help you out in reviewing the literature required for your work? It's good to do it yourself.
In case of real wastewaters containing several containants competitive adsorption occurs i.e. the contaminant for which the adsorbent has more affinity will be adsorbed more compared to others. It depends on the type of adsorbent used. It is wise to fix this issue by trying a few adsobents. This will give you the idea which adsorbent has more affinity for amoxylin.
Before starting work, it is useful to think over its end, for example, i) whether adsorption will be the optimal method for a certain composition of wastewater, wastewater consumption and concentration of pollutants, production of the selected adsorbent, and much more; ii) it may turn out that among the alternative options for your conditions (about wastewater), adsorption will not be beneficial, and some other method will be more promising; iii) what to do with the spent adsorbent. I don't think that regeneration would be effective (from an economic point of view). Then you need to think about, for example, incineration, but then a number of other questions should be used.
Most certainly Prof. Miroslaw Grzesik was right the material and methodology review is available on research gate. Search for the material analyse the methods available the you can make do by optimization of the parameters to get better results.