Abstract
In the present study the defluoridation capacities of some of the naturally occurring materials like low and high iron containing lateritic ores, overburden from chromite mines of Orissa Mining Corporation (OMC) and Tata Steel have been estimated. The various experimental parameters studied for fluoride sorption from aqueous solutions were: time, pH, initial fluoride concentration, sorbent dose and temperature. The three geomaterials, namely chromite overburden from Orissa Mining Corporation, both low and high iron containing lateritic ores sorbed fluoride effectively. The sorption kinetics for these samples was found to follow first order rate expression and the experimental equilibrium sorption data fitted reasonably well to both Langmuir and Freundlich models. The negative values of Δ G° suggest the sorption of fluoride onto three samples to be spontaneous and the exothermic nature of sorption is confirmed by the −Δ H° values. The negative Δ S° values for these sorbents point towards decreased randomness at the solid/solution interface. The sorption studies were also carried out at natural pH conditions for fluoride removal from ground water samples and the fluoride level could be reduced from 10.25 to <1.0 mg L −1 by multistage adsorption process using OMC and NH samples.
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