Removal of penicillin from wastewater: a short review

Abstract

Wastewater treatment for the elimination of emerging pollutants such as penicillin, should be carried out in order to control the negative impact in the environment produced by these compounds, a particular characteristic they have is their high toxicity even at low concentrations, these pollutants are mainly found in wastewater. This review compiles and analyzes a list of recent papers for the removal of penicillin G from wastewater. The main techniques considered in this paper are: adsorption, advanced oxidation processes and some little studied on alternative treatments are considered, in this review the efficiency of removal, the characteristics, advantages and disadvantages for the removal of penicillin G has been highlighted, research carried out in the field of adsorption and advanced oxidation in recent years is detailed in order to open the way to novel studies that may allow a better perspective of the problem. This paper shows a general description of the state of art on the removal of penicillin G from water