Chinese scholars have discovered new technologies that can quickly deal with antibiotic residue contamination

, Sept. 8 (Xinhua Xu Haitao) Antimicrobial drugs are widely used in clinical treatment, but some drugs in the environment residues also pose a threat to human health. Recently,
Hefei Institute of Material Sciences Huang Qing researcher team and enterprises to cooperate in the study found that the use of low-temperature plasma technology, can efficiently and rapidly degrade the medical wastewater in the nofluorosa, tomycin, tycycline and other antibiotic residues. The results were published recently in the optical layer, an international academic journal in the field of the environment.
from hospitals, the pharmaceutical industry and the aquaculture industry often contains a lot of antibiotic residues. These wastewaters, if discharged without treatment, can seriously affect ecological balance and threaten human health. Plasma is considered to be the "fourth state" of the existence of substances other than solids, liquids and gases, and in recent years it has shown broad application prospects in many fields such as industry, agriculture and biomedical science.
Huang Qing researcher, in cooperation with enterprises, put forward a plan to treat wastewater and degrade antibiotics using "plasma biotechnology". Recently, they took the antibacterial drug nofluorosa star as an example of an in-depth study, found that the use of plasma-produced ozone can produce a defluorine reaction to nofluorosa star, resulting in nofluorosa star carboxyl and quinosterone group fracture. Experiments show that the high-efficiency and rapid degradation of nofluorosa can be achieved, and the technology has effect on the degradation of antibiotics such as tomycin, tycycline, kimmycin and strong mycomycin.
, this treatment technology is simple, low cost and does not produce secondary pollution, has been successfully applied to more than 40 sewage treatment cases, for the development of practical medical treatment, aquaculture wastewater treatment of new technologies is of great significance.