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Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering >> 2010, Volume 4, Issue 4 doi: 10.1007/s11783-010-0241-y

Removal of fluoride from water using titanium-based adsorbents

Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, POPs Research Center, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China

Available online: 2010-12-05

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Abstract

Three adsorbents including TiO , Ti-Ce, and Ti-La hybrid oxides were prepared to remove fluoride from aqueous solution. The Ti-Ce and Ti-La hybrid adsorbents obtained by the hydrolysis-precipitation method had much higher sorption capacity for fluoride than the TiO adsorbent prepared through hydrolysis. Rare earth (Ce and La) oxides and TiO exhibited a synergistic effect in the hybrid adsorbents for fluoride sorption. The sorption equilibrium of fluoride on the three adsorbents was achieved within 4 h, and the pseudo-second-order model described the sorption kinetics well. The sorption isotherms fitted the Langmuir model well, and the adsorption capacities of fluoride on the Ti-Ce and Ti-La adsorbents were about 9.6 and 15.1 mg·g , respectively, at the equilibrium fluoride concentration of 1.0 mg·L , much higher than the 1.7 mg·g on the TiO . The sorption capacities of fluoride on the three adsorbents decreased significantly when the solution pH increased from 3 to 9.5. The electrostatic interaction played an important role in fluoride removal by the three adsorbents, and Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) analysis indicated that the hydroxyl groups on the adsorbent surface were involved in fluoride adsorption.

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