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JOURNAL OF SAUDI CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 18, Issue 4, Pages 340-347Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jscs.2013.10.010
Keywords
Adsorption; Fluoride; Box-Behnken design; Maghemite (gamma-Fe2O3) nanoparticles; Thermodynamics studies
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- Islamic Azad University Shahre-Qods Branch
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Adsorption of fluoride ion was done from its aqueous solution by using maghemite (gamma-Fe2O3) nanoparticles. Effects of the major independent variables (temperature, adsorbent dose and pH) and their interactions during fluoride ion adsorption were determined by response surface methodology (RSM) based on three-level three-factorial Box Behnken design (BBD). Optimized values of temperature, maghemite nanoparticle dose and pH for fluoride sorption were found as 313 K, 0.5 g/L, and 4, respectively. In order to investigate the mechanism of fluoride removal, various adsorption isotherms such as Langmuir, Freundlich, Temkin and Florry Huggins were fitted. The experimental data revealed that the Langmuir isotherm gave a more satisfactory fit for fluoride removal. The adsorption process was rapid and obeyed pseudo-second-order kinetics. The values of thermodynamic parameters AG, AH and AS indicated that adsoriotion was spontaneous and endothermic in nature. (C) 2013 King Saud University. Production and hosting by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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