CIPROFLOXACIN PHOTOCATALYTIC DEGRADATION WITH TIO2 NANOMATERIALS

• Main Authors: Samuel TREVIÑO MORA, José Albino MORENO RODRÍGUEZ, Jorge Luis ARELLANO OCOTECATL, Efrain RUBIO ROSAS, Alfonso Daniel DÍAZ FONSECA, Eduardo Alejandro VALDEZ TORIJA, Lilián Aurora MORENO RODRÍGUEZ, José Genaro CARMONA GUTIÉRREZ
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Spanish
• Published: 01.05.2019
• Subjects: CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROCESSES, e.g. CATALYSIS OR COLLOIDCHEMISTRY; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL; THEIR RELEVANT APPARATUS; TRANSPORTING

The present disclosure is related to methodology for the synthesis and obtainment of the TiO2-550 nanocatalyst, which is a simple nanomaterial, that degrades the antibiotic known as ciprofloxacin (C17H18FN3O3) in a period of time that could go from 20 to 30 minutes of reaction, being the last value, the one with better yield in the degradation of the antibiotic, in a 97% approximately. Solving a serious water pollution problem, by eliminating this antibiotic secreted by means of urine and feces of the patients who ingest it, preventing the same from concentrating in aquifers and accumulate in marine fauna in high concentrations. This process benefits the environmental area and the treatment of highly polluting toxic substances. La presente invención proporciona la metodología para la síntesis y obtención del nanocatalizador TiO2-550, el cual es ua nanomaterial simple, que degrada al antibiótico ciprofloxacina (C17H18FN3O3) en un tiempo de 20 min a 30 min de reacción, siendo el valor último el de mejor rendimiento en la degradación del antibiótico en un 97% aproximadamente. Solucionando un grave problema de contaminación de aguas, al eliminar este antibiótico secretado por medio de orina y heces de los pacientes que lo ingieren, evitando así que se concentre en los mantos acuíferos y se acumule en la fauna marina en altas concentraciones, dicho proceso beneficia al área ambiental y tratamiento de sustancias tóxicas altamente contaminantes.