Abstract
This work introduced a new way of fabricating a granular material with the supply of Al-rich precipitates selectively obtained from acid mine drainage (AMD), and its potential as a promising adsorbent for fluoride (F) was evaluated. Through the selective sequential precipitation (SP) process in the field, Al-rich precipitates with high purity (>81%) were collected at the high recovery rate (>99.8%) as a raw material for adsorbent fabrication. The granular adsorbent (ALB) was synthesized through encapsulation of precipitate powders by chemically inducing polymeric bead formation. The characterization results revealed that ALB possessed a highly porous structure and embedded a large number of nanoparticles of amorphous Al hydroxides inside its framework. Less adsorption of F occurred at an alkaline pH condition due to the competitive effect of hydroxyl ions. The adsorption process can be divided into fast adsorption by the outer surface and slow diffusion in the inner phase. The maximum adsorption capacity of ALB for F was calculated to be 17.7 mg g-1 in the Langmuir isotherm model fitting results. By the repetitive adsorption/desorption and XPS results, it turned out that both chemisorption and physisorption gave a contribution in the removal of F, and the regeneration of adsorbent using NaOH was effective to restore the adsorption capability but accompanied the loss of adsorption sites. As a result, it can be concluded that a granule-type material fabricated using Al-rich precipitates selectively recovered from AMD neutralization can be considered as a promising adsorbent for F removal in aqueous solution.
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