Iranian Journal of

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Backgrounds and Objectives: Determination of Fluoride in drinking water has received increasing interest, duo to its beneifical and detrimental effects on health. The aim of this research is investigation of Effect of  activated alumina in fluoride concentration reduction in drinking water.
Materials and Methods: Expriment in batch system and with change effective parameters such as pH(5, 7,9), equilibration time (30, 60, 90, 120 minute), initial fluoride concentration(1.4, 2, 2.4 mg/l) and activated Alumina dosage (0.1, 0.2, 0.3 gr/l) was investigated. Also found data of this research were fited with Langmuir and Freundlich models, kinetic data with pseudo- first order, pseudo- second order and modifited pseudo- first order  models.
Results: The results showed that with increasing of pH of solution, removal efficiency was decreased and optimum pH was found to be in the range of 5 to 7. Also removal efficiency of fluoride was increased with increasing of adsorbent dosage and decreasing of initial concentration of fluoride. Adsorption isotherm data show that the fluoride sorption followed the Langmuir model (r²=0.98). Kinetics of sorption of fluoride onto Activated alumina was well described by pseudo- second order model.
Conclusion: The concentration of Activated Alumina had significant effect on the reduction of fluoride ions concentration in water.The higher fluoride removals were observed for batch experiments at pH=5 because no free fluoride ion is present in the solutions, and it could be casued by electrostatic interactions between the surface of alumina and the dominant fluoride species in solution The kinetic model can adequately describe the removal behaviors of fluoride ion by alumina adsorption in the batch system.

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Backgrounds and Objectives: Determination of arsenic(As) in drinking water has received increasing interest due to its detrimental effects on health. The aim of this research is to investigate effect of coating coral limestone using aluminum sulfate as an adsorbent on the arsenic(V) removal efficiency from aqueous solution. Materials and Methods: In this laboratory scale study, we prepared coral lime granules using mesh 30 during several stages. Then, we investigated the arsenate removal efficiency under different conditions and changing main factors including pH, contact time and amount of no coated and aluminum sulfate-coated adsorbent. Moreover, we fitted our results with Langmuir and Freundlich models and kinetic data with pseudo- first order, pseudo- second order and modified pseudo- first order models. Results: We found that increasing pH from 3 to 10 at arsenate concentration of 500 ppb and 5 g/l adsorbent and 120 min contact time, removal efficiency for no coated and coated adsorbent was reduced from 100 to 86.2% and from 100 to 92.2% respectively. Increasing concentration of both adsorbents from 1 to 5 g/l at contact time 120 min increased the removal efficiency from 76 to 99.2% and from 66.3 to 91.1% respectively. Arsenate removal efficiency was directly proportional with the amount of adsorbent and contact time and reversely proportional with the initial concentration of arsenate and pH. The removal efficiency of the coated adsorbent was more than uncoated adsorbent. Langmuir was the best sorption isotherm model for arsenate in these two processes and absorption kinetic was well described with second order models. Conclusion: Excellent removal efficiency, cost-effectiveness process, and lack of environmentally harmful substances make application of the Persian Gulf offshore corals a reasonable adsorbent to remove environmental contaminants such as arsenate.

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