Journal
JOURNAL OF SCIENCE-ADVANCED MATERIALS AND DEVICES
Volume 2, Issue 4, Pages 483-492Publisher
VIETNAM NATL UNIV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsamd.2017.09.001
Keywords
Al2O3; Nanoparticles; Characterization; Fluoride; Adsorption; Regeneration
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This study concerns the removal of fluoride using aluminium oxide nanoparticles synthesized in the presence of oxidizing agents H2SO4, KMnO4 and K2Cr2O7. The obtained nanoparticles were characterized using TGA, FESEM, EDX and XRD. The almost constant weight loss was observed from the TGA data for the temperature range from 400 to 650 degrees C. XRD analysis with and without oxidizing agents indicated the crystalline behaviour which increased with increasing the temperature. Prepared Al2O3 nanoparticles exhibited a considerable potential for fluoride adsorption from an aqueous medium in the concentration range of 2-8 mg/l. In this case, around 92% fluoride was adsorbed at pH = 4.7. The equilibrium data were well fitted with Freundlich adsorption isotherm, whereas the adsorption kinetic data followed the pseudo second order model. (c) 2017 The Authors. Publishing services by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of Vietnam National University, Hanoi. This is an open access article under the CC BY license.
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