Tylosin abatement in water by photocatalytic process

N.A. Laoufi (1, 2) , A. Alatrache (1, 3) , Marie-Noëlle Pons (4) , Orfan Zahraa (1)

1 DCPR - Département de Chimie Physique des Réactions
2 Département de Génie Chimique et de Cryogénie
3 ESSTT - Ecole Supérieure des Sciences et Techniques [Tunis]
4 LSGC - Laboratoire des Sciences du Génie Chimique

The photocatalytic degradation of tylosin has been studied using immobilized titanium dioxide as catalyst. T he processes of degradation and reduction of tylosin was examined, and the activity is dominantly dependent on the surface coverage of the catalysts, The Langmuir-Hinshelwood model is satisfactorily obeyed at initial time and in the course of the reaction. These results suggest the feasibility of a photocatalytic system on the elimination of such antibiotic.

Mots clés: Tylosin; photocatalysis; titanium dioxide; immobilization

Domaines: Chimie-Physique [physics.chem-ph]; Génie des procédés

N.A. Laoufi, A. Alatrache, Marie-Noëlle Pons, Orfan Zahraa. Tylosin abatement in water by photocatalytic process. International conference on Xenobiotics in the Urban Water Cycle XENOWAC 2009, Mar 2009, Paphos, Cyprus. ISBN 978-9963-671-89-2, 6 pp. ⟨hal-00373080⟩