Developing low-cost and effective materials for excess fluoride removal is important for providing safe water. A novel ad- sorbent, La（IlI）-loaded bentonite/chitosan beads （La-BCB） was prepared for defluoridation ...Developing low-cost and effective materials for excess fluoride removal is important for providing safe water. A novel ad- sorbent, La（IlI）-loaded bentonite/chitosan beads （La-BCB） was prepared for defluoridation from aqueous solution. The effects of various parameters such as dosage of La（III）, pH, temperature, contact time, initial fluoride concentration and presence of co-existing anions were investigated to examine the defluoridation behavior. The maximum defluoridation capacity of La-BCB was 2.87 mg/g at pH 5, 30 ℃. Scanning electron microscopy （SEM）, energy dispersive spectroscopy （EDX） and Fourier transform infrared spectros- copy （FTIR） were employed to analyze the characteristics of La-BCB. The equilibrium fluoride adsorption data fitted well with both Langmuir and Freundlich isotherm models. The RL value revealed that the defluoridation process using La-BCB was favorable. The adsorption kinetics followed pseudo-second order kinetic as well as particle and intraparticle diffusion models. The presence of car- bonate and bicarbonate reduced defluoridation capacity of La-BCB while sulphate, nitrate and chloride showed slight effect. The ex- hausted La-BCB was regenerated using sodium hydroxide with only 17% loss. The reasonable defluoridation mechanism could be interpreted as adsorption and ion exchange.展开更多
基金Project supported by National Special Fund for Scientific Research on Public Causes(201005020)China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(2013M531652)National Natural Science Foundation of China(31302162)
文摘Developing low-cost and effective materials for excess fluoride removal is important for providing safe water. A novel ad- sorbent, La（IlI）-loaded bentonite/chitosan beads （La-BCB） was prepared for defluoridation from aqueous solution. The effects of various parameters such as dosage of La（III）, pH, temperature, contact time, initial fluoride concentration and presence of co-existing anions were investigated to examine the defluoridation behavior. The maximum defluoridation capacity of La-BCB was 2.87 mg/g at pH 5, 30 ℃. Scanning electron microscopy （SEM）, energy dispersive spectroscopy （EDX） and Fourier transform infrared spectros- copy （FTIR） were employed to analyze the characteristics of La-BCB. The equilibrium fluoride adsorption data fitted well with both Langmuir and Freundlich isotherm models. The RL value revealed that the defluoridation process using La-BCB was favorable. The adsorption kinetics followed pseudo-second order kinetic as well as particle and intraparticle diffusion models. The presence of car- bonate and bicarbonate reduced defluoridation capacity of La-BCB while sulphate, nitrate and chloride showed slight effect. The ex- hausted La-BCB was regenerated using sodium hydroxide with only 17% loss. The reasonable defluoridation mechanism could be interpreted as adsorption and ion exchange.
