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Removal of fluoride from groundwater onto BAC—an adsorbent made by infusing brick powder, alum, and calcium chloride has been investigated in the present study. Individually, the three materials can take up fluoride, but in very low concentration and therefore these have been selected and fused together to enhance the overall fluoride removal capacity. The three materials were taken in the ratio of 1:1:1, fused together with 20% conc. HCl, oven dried at 105 °C for 24 h. The material was then crushed and powder and was kept in airtight container. For initial fluoride concentration of 4 mg/L, an equilibrium time of 120 min. was observed at dose of 7.5 g/L of BAC at 280 rpm shaking speed. Pseudo-second-order kinetic model fits experimental data very well suggested the applicability of the same. The results of the isotherm studies showed that fluoride removal by BAC followed the Freundlich isotherm model.
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Ahamad, K.U., Mahanta, A., Ahmed, S. (2019). Removal of Fluoride from Groundwater by Adsorption onto Brick Powder–Alum–Calcium-Infused Adsorbent. In: Kalamdhad, A., Singh, J., Dhamodharan, K. (eds) Advances in Waste Management . Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0215-2_16
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