28% to 75.13 ± 2.14%, 96.55 ± 1.46% to 79.37 ± 1.95%, and 96.85 ± 1.62% to 74.65 ± 2.74%, respectively, with an increase in the flow rate from 1.0 to 4.0 mL/min. The optimal flow rate for estrogens adsorption was chosen as 1.0 mL/min in this study, given an overall consideration of adsorption efficiencies and the cost of the increment of the treatment time. If the amount of adsorbates was larger than breakthrough adsorption amount of adsorbent materials, target compounds could flow away with solution.

In order to obtain high removal efficiency, breakthrough amount should be investigated. Under the optimum conditions, the breakthrough amount was investigated by pumping 100 mL solution with CHIR98014 molecular weight initial concentration of the three target estrogens in the range of 1.0 to 20.0 mg/L through the disk filter device. The results indicated that satisfactory removal yields (above 90%) were obtained during 1.0 to 15.0 mg/L. Adriamycin cell line When the initial concentration was increased to 20.0 mg/L, a drop about 11.29% to 14.76% of removal yields of all the three target estrogens was occurred. The marked decline indicated the adsorption breakthrough of Nylon 6 nanofibers mat. According to the experimental results, the breakthrough initial concentration of all the three estrogens was 15.0 mg/L, while the removal

yields of DES, DS, and HEX were 97.55 ± 1.36%, Trichostatin A 95.13 ± 1.65%, and 93.37 ± 1.49%, respectively. Therefore, the maximum dynamic adsorption capacity

of DES, DS, and HEX by Nylon 6 nanofibers mat was calculated as 365.81, 356.74, and 350.13 mg/g for DES, DS, and HEX, respectively. It was evident that highly dynamic estrogen adsorption performance could be obtained using Nylon 6 nanofibers mat as sorbent material. Desorption performance and reusability of Nylon 6 nanofibers mat As shown in Figure 6, the Nylon 6 nanofibers mat-loaded estrogens were regenerated and present better reuse performance. The estrogen adsorption capacity still remained over 80% after seven times usage. It is clear that the variations of removal selleckchem yields of target compounds are not obvious for the first six times but were reduced in the seventh time. Therefore, it could be concluded that one mat can be used six times for high-performance adsorption. Figure 6 Reusability of Nylon 6 nanofibers mat ( n  = 3). Conclusions Adsorption technology plays an important role in pollutant removal in environmental water. The key research is to find new adsorbents and clear the detailed adsorption characteristics. This study investigated the kinetics and thermodynamics characteristics of estrogen removal by Nylon 6 electrospun nanofibers for the first time, with an expectation of taking advancement in the feasibility of applications of nanofiber-based adsorption technique for contaminated water treatment.