Ebal's Team successfully defended their research
Ebal's Team successfully defended their research
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Undergraduate Chemical Engineering students John Christopher C. Ebal, Alec Noah R. Marchadesch, Rose Anne G. Oro, Rafaella Marie P. Ortega, and Patrick James B. Polinar successfully defended their research entitled "Fenton-like Degradation of Diclofenac in Water using Iron-impregnated Mussel Shell Biochar (Fe@MSBC)," June 15, 2022.
Their work, entitled aimed to develop a catalyst from waste mussel shells to degrade diclofenac in wastewater. In their work, they pyrolyzed the waste mussel shells and impregnated them with iron to produce the Fenton-like catalyst, Fe@MSBC.
The synthesized Fe@MSBC was thoroughly characterized using SEM, EDX, FTIR, DSC, TG-DTA, and PXRD, to elucidate its physicochemical properties. Then, the Fe@MSBC was used to degrade diclofenac in simulated wastewater with the aid of sodium percarbonate as the oxidizing agent. The team investigated the effect of catalyst loading, initial diclofenac concentration, and initial sodium percarbonate concentration on the degradation of diclofenac.
This research is of great value because the team was able to demonstrate how waste shells can be transformed into high-value catalysts that are very effective in degrading pharmaceutical compounds such as diclofenac in water. The team hopes that with their research, more developments will be done to fully realize the degradation of pharmaceuticals in industrial wastewater streams using low-cost catalysts.
This study was done together with their adviser, Engr. Edgar Clyde R. Lopez of the GAMER Group, and their co-adviser, Engr. Eric Halabaso.
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