Defluoridation of Water Using Aluminum Hydroxide Activated Carbon Biosorbents
Open Access
- 31 March 2022
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Hindawi Limited in Advances in Materials Science and Engineering
- Vol. 2022, 1-12
- https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/4038444
Abstract
This study was aimed to investigate the efficiency of locally available low-cost and eco-friendly activated agricultural biosorbents produced from corncob and sorghum husk for the removal of fluoride from aqueous solution using batch adsorption. The activated biosorbents were characterized using SEM, XRD and FTIR spectroscopy. Effects of particle size (0.0631.0mm), contact time (15120min), pH (212), dose (210g), and initial concentration (0.55.0mg/L) were investigated. The morphology analysis revealed that biosorbents showed the presence of a high binding capacity for fluoride adsorption. The maximum adsorption was attained; size of the adsorbent 0.063mm, pH 7, contact time 60min, and 6g dose of the biosorbents. Moreover, the adsorption kinetics followed the pseudo-second-order model and the adsorption isotherms fitted well to the Langmuir model. Furthermore, a field study was conducted using real water sample collected from Semema, Tigray, Ethiopia, and maximum fluoride removal was observed to be 79.44 and 77.05 for the activated carbons of Corncob and Sorghum husk at optimum conditions. Therefore, this experimental finding indicated that activated carbon of Corncob and Sorghum husk can be used as efficient, cheap, and eco-friendly biosorbents for the removal of fluoride from drinking water at community level.Keywords
Funding Information
- Mekelle University (CRPO/CNCS/Medium/Recurrent/001/2018)
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