Photodegradation and toxicity changes of antibiotics in UV and UV/H₂O₂ process

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• 作者：Fang Yuan ; Chun Hu ; Xuexiang Hu ; Dongbin Wei ; Yong Chen ; Jiuhui Qu
• 关键词：Antibiotics ; Photolysis ; Hydroxyl radicals ; Kinetics ; Toxicity
• 刊名：Journal of Hazardous Materials
• 出版年：2011
• 出版时间：30 January 2011
• 年：2011
• 卷：185
• 期：2-3
• 页码：1256-1263
• 全文大小：682 K

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The photodegradation of three antibiotics, oxytetracycline (OTC), doxycycline (DTC), and ciprofloxacin (CIP) in UV and UV/H₂O₂ process was investigated with a low-pressure UV lamp system. Experiments were performed in buffered ultrapure water (UW), local surface water (SW), and treated water from local municipal drinking water treatment plant (DW) and wastewater treatment plant (WW). The efficiency of UV/H₂O₂ process was affected by water quality. For all of the three selected antibiotics, the fastest degradation was observed in DW, and the slowest degradation occurred in WW. This phenomenon can be explained by R_OH,UV, defined as the experimentally determined OH radical exposure per UV fluence. The R_OH,UV values represent the background OH radical scavenging in water matrix, obtained by the degradation of para-chlorobenzoic acid (pCBA), a probe compound. In natural water, the indirect degradation of CIP did not significantly increase with the addition of H₂O₂ due to its effective degradation by UV direct photolysis. Moreover, the formation of several photoproducts and oxidation products of antibiotics in UV/H₂O₂ process was identified using GC–MS. Toxicity assessed by Vibrio fischer (V. fischer), was increased in UV photolysis, for the photoproducts still preserving the characteristic structure of the parent compounds. While in UV/H₂O₂ process, toxicity increased first, and then decreased; nontoxic products were formed by the oxidation of OH radical. In this process, detoxification was much easier than mineralization for the tested antibiotics, and the optimal time for the degradation of pollutants in UV/H₂O₂ process would be determined by parent compound degradation and toxicity changes.