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Interactions and imobilization of pharmaceuticals in soil systems
Šmerdová, Kateřina ; Krouská, Jitka (referee) ; Klučáková, Martina (advisor)
In these days, most non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), including diclofenac (DK), are considered as environmental contaminants. In this thesis, the sorption and desorption mechanisms of diclofenac in soils with different organic matter content were studied. The pH of the medium and its effect on DK adsorption by Britton – Robinson buffer were also studied. Last but not least, the spontaneous degradation of DK in water under sunshine was observed; depending on similar studies, the photodegradation product has been described. The value of pH and conductivity of all the samples were monitored continuously throughout the experiment. It has been found that the content of soil organic matter has a colossal influence on the drug sorption and desorption. Studied soil with a higher content of organic matter recorded higher adsorption of DK in all monitored koncentration of DK. Different pH values also affected the sorption and desorption of DK. By results, a neutral and alkaline environment supports the adsorption of DK more than an acidic environment. The samples were analyzed by UV-VIS spectrophotometry. Photodegradation of DK in water was successful after 4 months. The degradation product was analyzed by UV-VIS spectrophotometry and FTIR spectrometry. The product of fotodegradation could probably be carbazole derivative.
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Sorption of radionuclid 85Sr to soils from area nuclear power plant Temelín
Reidingerová, Markéta ; Nesměrák, Karel (advisor) ; Rychlovský, Petr (referee)
This thesis is focused on the study of sorption of radionuclide 85 Sr in soil collected in the area of a nuclear power plant Temelín. A single-batch method experiment was used when a solution of radionuclide 85 Sr of known activity was added to the soil. The experiments focussed on the influence of pH with the size of the sorption and the influence of the time of the contact of the solution with the sorption. During the experiment with the value of pH closest to the pH of underground water from the nuclear power plant Temelín, the sorption of soil was somewhere between 31 to 44 %. When the time influence on the sorption was examined, radionuclide 85 Sr was sorbed very quickly. For the comparison of the sorption size in connection with the time, for which it was chosen 120 minutes, the sorption was almost constant, reaching 40 to 48 %. Key words Radioactivity, radionuclide 85 Sr, sorption, nuclear power plant Temelín
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Adsorption of radionuclides in granite pores and micropores
Šindelář, Jakub ; Mls, Jiří (advisor) ; Šantrůček, Jaromír (referee)
Adsorption of radionuclides in granite pores and micropores ABSTRACT This graduation thesis deals with laboratory determination of adsorption isotherms parameters. Granite from the central moldanubian pluton, site Panské Dubenky, Czech Republic, was chosen to the experiment. The place is one of the candidate sites to build a deep nuclear waste disposal. A batch experiment was performed in two modes, differing in the way of addition of radioactive nuclide 90 Sr. From this experiment, distribution coefficients for a linear isotherm or parameters for Langmuir isotherm were obtained. Beside this, a through-diffusion experiment was performed. The objective of this experiment was to identify whether some of the radionuclides used (137 Cs, 90 Sr, 125 I) is able to penetrate through the pores of a granite slice barrier between two solutions of different concentrations. During the period of the experiment no radionuclide was detected reliably.
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Diel variations of selected elements in arsenic-rich stream at the Mokrsko
Nováková, Barbara ; Drahota, Petr (advisor) ; Skřivan, Petr (referee)
The filtration and ultrafiltration experiment was applied on the stream water at the Mokrsko gold deposit and the results revealed that most of the elements were in the dissolved form and the 0,45 or 0,1 m filters could be used. During two 24-h field experiments, water samples were collected at 1-h intervals in order to prove the diel changes in the concentration and speciation of several trace elements. The determination of sorption processes at the surface of or within the veneer of biofilm has been determined by collecting natural and artificial priphyton. The results showed regular diel changes of As, Sb and Mo with highest concentrations occurring after the moon and the lowest concentrations in the early morning. The dissolved concentrations of other elements are conservative or their values were closed to their detection limits. The diel cycles are caused by changes in adsorption/desorption equilibria induced by diel cycles of temperature. The samples of biofilm revealed increased concentrations of the elements under the study and their diel variation were significant (approximatelly 35-96%); however, biofilm-controlled diel cycles of dissolved concentrations have not been proved.
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Behaviour of radioactive substances in the Vltava and Elbe Rivers during nuclear accident
Juranová, Eva ; Hanslík, Eduard (advisor) ; Matějíček, Luboš (referee) ; Světlík, Ivo (referee)
Behaviour of radioactive substances in the Vltava and Elbe Rivers during nuclear accident Ing. Eva Juranová Supervisor: Ing. Eduard Hanslík, CSc. Abstract This work is focused in the research of the behaviour of radioactive substances released into the hydrosphere of the Vltava River and the subsequent Elbe stretch during a severe accident at the Temelín Nuclear Power Plant. The background values of anthropogenic radionuclides in surface water, residual contamination after the Chernobyl accident and after atmospheric tests of nuclear weapons, were evaluated using two methods and these methods were compared. The migration of the accidental radioactive contaminants in the watercourse would be mainly influenced by their ability to sorb onto the solid phase in the hydrosphere. Therefore, the sorption of particular anthropogenic radionuclides onto bottom sediments and solids suspended in the water column was monitored and evaluated at several sites along the Vltava and the Elbe Rivers. Furthermore, the possibility of using tritium, which is discharged during normal operation of the Temelín power plant, as tracers for the purposes of modelling the migration of pollution, was assessed.
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Interaction of Ibuprofen with Different Soil Types
Krajňáková, Soňa ; Enev, Vojtěch (referee) ; Klučáková, Martina (advisor)
Táto práca sa zameriava problematiku interakcie ibuprofénu s pôdnym systémom. Popísané sú jeho základné vlastnosti, správanie a faktory ovplyvňujúce toto správanie. Vo všeobecnosti najvplyvnejšími faktormi je prítomnosť pôdnej organickej hmoty v pôde a pH. Ibuprofén patrí do skupiny nesteroidných protizápalových liečiv. Patrí medzi ľahko dostupné a vysoko konzumované liečivá. Toto prispieva k jeho narastajúcemu transportu a kontaminácii životného prostredia. Jeho prítomnosť v životnom prostredí môže pôsobiť negatívne na živé organizmy. V experimentálnej časti bol preskúmaný vplyv pôdnej organickej hmoty a pH na sorpciu a desorpciu ibuprofénu. Použité boli tri pôdy získané z odlišných regiónov Českej republiky. V rámci procesu sorpcie a desorpcie boli použité koncentrácie v rozmedzí 1 až 10 mg/l. Vplyv pH na sorpciu a desorpciu bol preskúmaný použitím koncentrácie ibuprofénu 10 mg/l a Britton-Robinsonovho pufru s pH 3, 7 a 10. Detekcia ibuprofénu v jednotlivých vzorkách bola uskutočnená pomocou UV-VIS spektrometrie a kvapalinovej chromatografie s hmotnostne spektrometrickou detekciou.
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Study of selected antibiotics sorption on polyhydroxybutyrate
Amrichová, Anna ; Doležalová Weissmannová, Helena (referee) ; Řezáčová, Veronika (advisor)
The bachelor thesis deals with the issue of sorption of antibiotics on microplastics. Antibiotics and microplastics are now a highly studied topic, due to the positive and negative properties. Antibiotics with groups of sulfonamides and quinolones were selected for the experiment. From sulfonamides, sulfamethoxazole and trimethoprim were selected, and from the quinolones, enrofloxacin and ciprofloxacin, which have already been the impetus for some microplastic studies. Biodegradable polyhydroxybutyrate was used as the microplastic. Two experiments were performed in the laboratory. The first aimed to monitor the time dependence of antibiotic sorption on polyhydroxybutyrate, the second the concentration. The concentration dependence was subsequently evaluated using the Freundlich and Langmuir isotherms. The method of liquid chromatography with mass spectrometry was used for analyzes.
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Study of microplastic sorption properties
Hlaváčková, Hana ; Kučerík, Jiří (referee) ; Řezáčová, Veronika (advisor)
There is currently an effort to replace conventional plastics with biodegradable products that will have the ability to replace these substances. One of the possible biodegradable felt, which is currently being studied in detail, is also poly (3-hydroxybutyrate), which is produced by bacteria. This bachelor thesis deals with the sorption of selected substances on poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) microparticles. Substances whose contamination of water sources is a significant problem today have been selected for this work. Specifically, the sorption of the nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory substance ibuprofen, the triazole fungicide tebuconazole and the most common drug caffeine on PHB particles, which fall in the size of the microplastic group, were studied. The method of liquid chromatography with mass detection was used for analyzes.
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Study of sorption properties of biochar
Kocinger, Oskar ; Řezáčová, Veronika (referee) ; Mravcová, Ludmila (advisor)
This diploma thesis deals with sorption properties of biochar produced from wood biomass treated with concentrated hydrochloric acid and activated carbon with respect to the triazine pesticide propazine. Although pesticides are widely used in both agriculture and the private sector worldwide, they pose a significant risk to ecosystems and human health. Propazine belongs to the group of chlorinated triazine herbicides, which pose a risk mainly as endocrine disruptors. The sorption of organic pollutants using pyrogenic carbonaceous materials promises an efficient and economically affordable solution, which has recently received increasing attention from the scientific community. In this work, we used isotherms to describe the equilibria of propazine sorption to given sorbents during vial experiments. Analysis of the propazine content in the model water solutions after reaching equilibrium was performed using high-performance liquid chromatography with mass detection.
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Behaviour of diclofenac in soil systems
Šmerdová, Kateřina ; Kalina, Michal (referee) ; Klučáková, Martina (advisor)
In these days, a large amount of drugs are not completely removed in wastewater treatment plants, than it enters watercourses and then it leaks into soils. These substances are not natural in the environment, so they can have a negative effects here. This is very important to study the behavior of foreign substances in the environment. In this thesis the sorption and desorption behavior of the commonly used drug diclofenac in the soil system was monitored. The rate of sorption and desorption was determined from the change in diclofenac concentration analyzed by UV-VIS spectrometry. Changes in pH and conductivity were also monitored. Diclofenac showed good sorption properties in all the concentrations. There was no desorption or just a minimal desorption, that indicating a strong bond between diclofenac and soil and less leachability into the soil fusion. The results of this thesis showed, that even if diclofenac leaks into the environment, it is mostly adsorbed into the soil. This is largely positive, because diclofenac is practically harmless in the soil and due to the strong bond it also persist there.
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