Fast Degradation of Tetracycline and Ciprofloxacin in Municipal Water under Hydrodynamic Cavitation/Plasma with CeO2 Nanocatalyst

Although water contamination with drug residues is a threat to public health, there are currently barely any effective methods of purifying from pharmaceutical substances. In this study, continuous-flow sonoplasma treatment was used for the complete degradation tetracycline and ciprofloxacin in polluted municipal water. The addition CeO2 nanoparticles as catalysts significantly increased rate antibiotics, degree 70% achieved. presence reactive oxygen species CeO2-nanoparticle-containing sonoplasma-treated system experimentally proven first time using chemiluminescence technique.