OBTENÇÃO DE CARVÃO ATIVADO A PARTIR DE RESÍDUOS AGROINDUSTRIAIS PARA ADSORÇÃO DE ANTIBIÓTICO – AMOXICILINA

Abstract

There is great concern for society as a whole with the waste generation without proper treatment, knowing that can cause disorders. The Brazil is a major producer of agro-industrial, and this waste generation is very large and often and this material doesn’t have an appropriate destination. This work uses an agro-industrial residue very common in the Brazil, for the production of activated carbon, a material that is widely used as adsorbent in the industry. As a precursor, was used the sugar cane bagasse and activation, the chemical reagent ZnCl2 (proportion 1:2). The mean time was 14 hours impregnation and carbonization, was used a heating rate of 3°C/min until the temperature of 250C, with a level of 30 minutes at this temperature, then the temperature was increased to 600C at a rate of 5C/min level this heating for 1 hour at that temperature. The samples were characterized by MEV and BET. They had an average specific surface area mean of 1.501,3 m2/g and an average pore size of 2.6 nm. Tests for adsorption of the antibiotic amoxicillin were performed by two different methods, namely, with magnetic stirrer and column. The two methods showed very satisfactory results, reducing the concentration of antibiotic 10% (1.37,10-3 mol/L) to about 9.95,10-8 mol/L test with magnetic stirrer and 3.53,10-8 mol/L column test, i.e. the concentration of antibiotic in water, after adsorption was reduced by five orders of magnitude, confirmed the efficiency of the nanostructured material of carbon developed here for the removal of residual antibiotic environment.