Removal of drugs from water and wastewater by adsorbents and nanocomposites produced with biomasses waste

• Grant number: 20/14419-7
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: December 01, 2021
• End date: May 31, 2024
• Field of knowledge: Engineering - Sanitary Engineering - Water Supply and Wastewater Treatment
• Principal Investigator: Geórgia Christina Labuto Araújo
• Grantee: Geórgia Christina Labuto Araújo
• Host Institution: Instituto de Ciências Ambientais, Químicas e Farmacêuticas (ICAQF). Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP). Campus Diadema. Diadema , SP, Brazil
• Associated researchers: Décio Luis Semensatto Junior ; Elma Neide Vasconcelos Martins Carrilho ; João Paulo Serejo Goulão Crespo ; Leandro Augusto Calixto ; Maria de Lourdes Leite de Moraes ; Nilson Antonio de Assunção ; Sherlan Guimarães Lemos ; Tiago Dias Martins ; Vanessa Ranhada Pinto Jorge Pereira
• Associated scholarship(s): 23/01300-0 - Implementation and validation of analytical methods for determination of antibiotics and antineoplastics prioritized for determination and removal of aqueous matrices, BP.TT; 22/01369-7 - Implementation and validation of analytical methods for determination of antibiotics and antineoplastics prioritized for determination and removal of aqueous matrices, BP.TT

Abstract

The access to clean and safe water and basic sanitation are fundamental human rights. In contrast, water bodies have been worldwide deprived of their quality by the misuse of natural resources, causing scarcity of water, either by available quantity or by deterioration of its quality. Regarding quality, efforts to develop new technologies and processes that contribute to the treatment of water and effluents have been undertaken by the scientific community to guarantee it. In this task, it is interesting that such technologies and processes are developed in the perspective of the Circular Bioeconomy, which aims to attribute commercial value to waste from agro-industrial processes. Among the numerous contaminants frequently reported in water bodies, drugs are of particular concern due to their toxicity, persistence, formation of degradation products, potential for the contribution to the origination of resistant microorganisms (bacteria, fungi, viruses) and action on the endocrine system of organisms, even when present in very low concentrations. Large-scale treatment processes of water and effluents do not adequately address the removal of such substances, requiring the development of new, fast alternatives, with cost savings and that allow more satisfactory results to be achieved the removal of pharmaceutical compounds from an aqueous medium. The present project proposes: 1) the prioritization of antibiotics and antineoplastics to be monitored and removed from water within the geographical scope of the hydrographic basin of the Guarapiranga reservoir (São Paulo, Brazil), based on the quantity of drugs sold in the cities that compose the basin and on the physical-chemical and toxicological of the molecules, and 2) Development and use of adsorbents and nanocomposites produced from residues biomasses from agroindustrial sources to remove the prioritized pharmaceutical molecules from water. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

LABUTO, GEORGIA; CARVALHO, ANA P.; MESTRE, ANA S.; DOS SANTOS, MIKAELA S.; MODESTO, HELEN R.; MARTINS, TIAGO DIAS; LEMOS, SHERLAN G.; DA SILVA, HERON D. T.; CARRILHO, ELMA NEIDE VASCONCELOS MARTINS; CARVALHO, WAGNER A.. Individual and competitive adsorption of ibuprofen and caffeine from primary sewage effluent by yeast-based activated carbon and magnetic carbon nanocomposite. SUSTAINABLE CHEMISTRY AND PHARMACY, v. 28, p. 16-pg., 2022-05-11. (17/13074-3, 20/14419-7, 16/06271-4)

BEZERRA, KATIA C. H.; NASCIMENTO, JACQUELINE R. R.; MARTINS, TIAGO D. D.; LEMOS, SHERLAN G. G.; CARRILHO, ELMA N. V. M.; RODRIGUES, CHRISTIANE DE A.; LABUTO, GEORGIA. Removal of Reactive Dyes from a Real Bichromatic Textile Effluent Employing Bio-Based Nanomagnetic Adsorbents. WATER AIR AND SOIL POLLUTION, v. 234, n. 7, p. 13-pg., 2023-07-01. (16/06271-4, 20/14419-7)

GUIMARAES, TACIANA G. S.; BARROS, LUCELIA A.; SILVA, RICARDO SANTOS; GONZALEZ, MARIO H.; CARRILHO, ELMA N. V. M.; LABUTO, GEORGIA. Synthesis and characterization of biochars modified with natural deep eutectic solvent (NADES) for dipyrone removal from aqueous medium. SUSTAINABLE CHEMISTRY AND PHARMACY, v. 35, p. 18-pg., 2023-10-01. (22/06823-8, 21/06471-1, 21/14759-5, 21/14791-6, 20/12263-0, 21/10599-3, 20/14419-7, 22/08358-0)