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(1) Background: Environmental contamination with antibiotics is particularly serious because the usual methods used in wastewater treatment plants turn out to be insufficient or ineffective. An interesting idea is to support natural biodegradation processes with physicochemical methods as well as with bioaugmentation with efficient microbial degraders. Hence, the aim of our study is evaluation of the effectiveness of different methods of nitrofurazone (NFZ) degradation: photolysis and photodegradation in the presence of two photocatalysts, the commercial TiO2-P25 and a self-obtained Fe3O4@SiO2/TiO2 magnetic photocatalyst. (2) Methods: The chemical nature of the photocatalysis products was investigated using a spectrometric method, and then, they were subjected to biodegradation using the strain Achromobacter xylosoxidans NFZ2. Additionally, the effects of the photodegradation products on bacterial cell surface properties and membranes were studied. (3) Results: Photocatalysis with TiO2-P25 allowed reduction of NFZ by over 90%, demonstrating that this method is twice as effective as photolysis alone. Moreover, the bacterial strain used proved to be effective in the removal of NFZ, as well as its intermediates. (4) Conclusions: The results indicated that photocatalysis alone or coupled with biodegradation with the strain A. xylosoxidans NFZ2 leads to efficient degradation and almost complete mineralization of NFZ.
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Wojciech Smułek
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Amanda Pacholak
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Agata Zdarta
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Agnieszka Zgoła-Grześkowiak
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Ewa Kaczorek
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- artykuły w czasopismach
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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
no. 22,
ISSN: 1661-6596 - Language:
- English
- Publication year:
- 2021
- Bibliographic description:
- Smułek W., Bielan Z., Pacholak A., Zdarta A., Zgoła-Grześkowiak A., Zielińska-Jurek A., Kaczorek E.: Nitrofurazone Removal from Water Enhanced by Coupling Photocatalysis and Biodegradation// INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES -Vol. 22,iss. 4 (2021), s.2186-
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- Digital Object Identifier (open in new tab) 10.3390/ijms22042186
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- Gdańsk University of Technology
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