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Light induced catalytic degradation of a series of common antibiotics and the corresponding HPLC analysis
Smítková, Karolína ; Klusoň, Petr (advisor) ; Krystyník, Pavel (referee)
1 Abstract The continuous advance in industry, general intensification of processes and urbanisation inevitably leads to production of new substances each year, collectively referred to as emerging pollutants (EPs). As the mass production of EPs increases, the demand for wastewater treatment plants also dramatically increases. The inadequacy of conventional tretament plants in removing EPs, such as pharmaceuticals, pesticides, personal care products, and others, results in the presence of these substances in surface and groundwater at significant concentrations. The often negative or unclear impact of EPs to the environment furhter emphasizes the urgency of this issue and requires a corresponding response. Photocatalysis belongs to the co-called advanced oxidation processes, key techniques for ensuring effective wastewater treatment. This thesis is focused on the photocatalytic degradation of tetracycline, trimethoprim and sulfamethoxazole, three common antibiotics frequently found in wastewater. Graphitic carbon nitride, a promising material in research of fotocatalytic degradation, was used as a photocatalyst and was activated by visible light emitted from a mercury xenon lamp. Experiments were conducted in batch setup and in microphotoreactor to compare the efficiency of both systems. Rhodamine B was...
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Comparison of the gold microelectrode and conventional electrode for the saccharide determination using pulsed amperometry
Smítková, Karolína ; Dejmková, Hana (advisor) ; Schwarzová, Karolina (referee)
This bachelor's thesis deals with combination of pulsed amperometric detection (PAD) with flow injection analysis (FIA) in order to use them to detect glucose and consequently carbohydrates in solution. Pulsed amperometry is efficient detection method for many of organic compounds in which, as the name suggests, a sequence of three or four potential pulses is applied at the working electrode. If the pulse parameters are suitable, then it is possible to eliminate the unwanted passivation of the working electrode due to the adsorption of oxidation products and intermediate products of aliphatic compounds, which would lead to a reducion of its active surface. The aim od this work is to show the effect of the change of the value of the applied potential pulses on the peak heights corresponding to the oxidation of the glucose in solution and to evaluate their repeatability. As a working electrode, it compares a gold electrode of conventional size and a gold microelectrode. The determination was performed in a borate buffer with pH = 10. First of all, cyclic voltammograms of solution with concentration of glucose 1·10-2 mol dm-3 were measured to obtain the initial values of the applied pulses. Subsequently, the dependence of the peak heights on their injection order for different values of individual...
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