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WATER AND ENVIRONMENT JOURNAL
Volume 34, Issue 1, Pages 25-36Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/wej.12438
Keywords
aluminium dosage; aluminium particle size; nitrate removal; pH; reaction kinetics; zero-valent aluminium
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- Center for the Management, Utilization and Protection of Water Resources at Tennessee Technological University
- Civil and Environmental Engineering Department of Tennessee Technological University
- TTU Center for the Management, Utilization and Protection of Water Resources
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Nitrate pollution in surface and groundwater is known to adversely affect human health, water quality and the health of aquatic ecosystems. Zero-valent aluminium is a strong reductant for ions such as nitrate. In this study, its use in nitrate reduction efficiency was evaluated as a function of pH, aluminium dosage and aluminium particle size through a lab-scale investigation. The most effective pH for complete nitrate removal, with an initial concentration of 14.0 +/- 1.0 mg N/L, was found to be 13 +/- 0.2. Under this condition, complete removal was achieved in 5 min, using aluminium particle size of 1-3 mu m and aluminium-to-nitrate (NO3--N) ratio of 125. The 1-3 mu m and 297-841 mu m aluminium particles removed nitrate at a reaction rate constant (k) of 0.048 +/- 0.017 (mg-N/L)(1.53)/min and at 0.042 +/- 0.014 (mg-N/L)(1.28)/min, respectively. The use of smaller aluminium particles was found to be more effective for nitrate removal than large particles, and it was observed that for these particle sizes, aluminium dosages was less of a factor than any other experimental conditions evaluated.
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