Author:
Liu Zheng,Zheng Sijie,Zhang Daolong
Abstract
Fluoride pollution in water has been reported in many regions and countries. Adsorption is the most commonly used process for treating fluoride-containing water. For industrial applications, the treatment of a pollutant is normally performed in continuous column mode. In this work, batch and lab-scale column studies were conducted by applying modified granular activated carbon (MGAC) to remove fluoride (F−) from an aqueous solution. MGAC was prepared by a wet impregnation method and characterized using SEM and FTIR. Batch studies presented the adsorption of F− onto MGAC following the Freundlich model and the pseudo-second-order model, indicating the dominant adsorption was a multilayer adsorption and chemisorption process. The breakthrough time, exhaustion time, adsorption capacity, and adsorption efficiency in breakthrough curves were evaluated under varying influent F− concentrations, flow rates, and bed heights. Thomas, Yoon-Nelson, and Yan models were employed to describe the whole breakthrough behavior, showing their suitability to predict the features of the breakthrough curves of the MGAC continuous flow system.
Funder
Education Department of Fujian Province
Xiamen University of Technology
Subject
Water Science and Technology,Aquatic Science,Geography, Planning and Development,Biochemistry
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