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Defluoridation Performance Comparison of Nano-hydrotalcite/Hydroxyapatite Composite with Calcined Hydrotalcite and Hydroxyapatite

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Fluoride retention from water is nowadays a serious health problem. This study reports the potential of a newly developed nano-hydrotalcite/hydroxyapatite (n-HT/HAp) composite, and its constituent materials, hydrotalcite (HT) and hydroxyapatite (HAp), in fluoride removal. Calcined hydrotalcites (cHT) showed a remarkable fluoride removal ability from water through memory effect mechanism. HAp, the mineral compound of bones, adsorbs fluoride as well but through ion exchange mechanism. Fluoride substitutes hydroxyls to produce fluorapatite. Among the tested calcined hydrotalcites, cHT Mg-Al (4:1) sample, composed of magnesium divalent cation to aluminum ratio of 4, was identified as the best-performing hydrotalcite. The differences among cHT samples in fluoride removal capacities are attributed to hydrotalcite composition as well as to particle size. The performance of these materials is compared with that of n-HT/HAp composite whose main features are basic acidic material and not yet tested in fluoride retention. Interestingly, n-HT/HAp also performs best, 98 %, slightly higher than the best cHT Mg-Al (4:1) sample with 97 % fluoride removal efficiency from such a high initial fluoride solution of 20 mg/L at 10 g/L dose, yielding the final residual fluoride concentrations of 0.36 and 0.6 mg/L, respectively; both meet the WHO standard for drinking water. Besides, the uncalcined hydrotalcite constituent added virtue to the advantage of using n-HT/HAp in fluoride removal as the efficiency was compensated by the nanometric size of the hydrotalcite particle.

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Acknowledgments

PB deeply appreciates Universidad Autónoma Nacional de Mexico for supporting him on his sabbatical leave at AAU. ID is grateful to CSIC for her research leave at AAU. The financial support from the Spanish Government MINECO (project MAT2012-31127) and Mexican Government CONACYT is acknowledged. The Chemistry Department, Addis Ababa University, is also acknowledged for the financial support (TR/008/2011). Taju Sani thanks DU for his study leave at AAU.

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  1. Chemistry Department, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

    Taju Sani, Mohammedali Adem, Pedro Bosch & Isabel Diaz

  2. Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico

    Geolar Fetter

  3. Instituto de Investigaciones en Materiales, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México City, Mexico

    Pedro Bosch

  4. Instituto de Catálisis y Petroleoquímica, CSIC, c/Marie Curie 2, 28049, Madrid, Spain

    Isabel Diaz

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Sani, T., Adem, M., Fetter, G. et al. Defluoridation Performance Comparison of Nano-hydrotalcite/Hydroxyapatite Composite with Calcined Hydrotalcite and Hydroxyapatite. Water Air Soil Pollut 227, 90 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11270-016-2786-2

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