Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Application of mesoporous zirconia coating on coal cinder for inorganic arsenic removal from aqueous solution

  • Published:
Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

A mesoporous zirconia film was simply introduced to coat coal cinder by means of sol–gel technique. Zirconia coated coal cinder was employed in removal of As(III) and As(V) from aqueous solution followed inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectrometry detection. At NaOH/HCl medium, both As(III) and As(V) can be quantitatively adsorbed at a wide pH range of 2.0–9.0. Adsorption process followed well pseudo-second order rate kinetics and Freundlich isotherm equations. The maximum adsorptive capacity of the coated coal cinder for arsenic was 95.7 mg g−1.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Fig. 1
Fig. 2
Fig. 3
Fig. 4
Fig. 5

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  1. Sanchez WM, Zwicker B, Chatt A (2009) Determination of As(III), As(V), MMA and DMA in drinking water by solid phase extraction and neutron activation. J Radioanal Nucl Chem 282:133–138

    Article  Google Scholar 

  2. Chowdhury SR, Yanful EK (2010) Arsenic and chromium removal by mixed magnetite-maghemite nanoparticles and the effect of phosphate on removal. J Environ Manag 91:2238–2247

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  3. Litter MI, Morgada ME, Bundschuh J (2010) Possible treatments for arsenic removal in Latin American waters for human consumption. Environ Pollut 158:1105–1118

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  4. Paul RL (2013) Determination of arsenic in food and dietary supplement standard reference materials by neutron activation analysis. J Radioanal Nucl Chem 297:365–370

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  5. Paul RL, Davis WC, Yu L, Murphy KE, Guthrie WF, Leber DD, Bryan CE, Vetter TW, Shakirova G, Mitchell G (2014) Certification of total arsenic in blood and urine standard reference materials by radiochemical neutron activation analysis and inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry. J Radioanal Nucl Chem 299:1555–1563

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  6. Kim YT, Yoon HO, Yoon C, Woo NC (2009) Arsenic species in ecosystems affected by arsenic-rich spring water near an abandoned mine in Korea. Environ Pollut 157:3495–3501

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  7. Li ZH, Jiang WT, Jean JS, Hong HL, Liao LB, Lv GC (2011) Combination of hydrous iron oxide precipitation with zeolite filtration to remove arsenic from contaminated water. Desalination 280:203–207

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  8. Jia YF, Zhang DN, Pan RR, Xu LY, Demopoulos GP (2012) A novel two-step coprecipitation process using Fe(III) and Al(III) for the removal and immobilization of arsenate from acidic aqueous solution. Water Res 46:500–508

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  9. Zhang GS, Ren ZM, Zhang XW, Chen J (2013) Nanostructured iron(III)-copper(II) binary oxide: a novel adsorbent for enhanced arsenic removal from aqueous solutions. Water Res 47:4022–4031

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  10. Bhowmick S, Chakraborty S, Mondal P, Van Renterghem W, Van den Berghe S, Roman-Ross G, Chatterjee D, Iglesias M (2014) Montmorillonite-supported nanoscale zero-valent iron for removal of arsenic from aqueous solution: kinetics and mechanism. Chem Eng J 243:14–23

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  11. Zheng YM, Zou SW, Nanayakkara KGN, Matsuura T, Chen JP (2011) Adsorptive removal of arsenic from aqueous solution by a PVDF/zirconia blend flat sheet membrane. J Membrane Sci 374:1–11

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  12. Manna AK, Sen M, Martin AR, Pal P (2010) Removal of arsenic from contaminated groundwater by solar-driven membrane distillation. Environ Pollut 158:805–811

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  13. Bhandari N, Reeder RJ, Strongin DR (2012) Photoinduced oxidation of arsenite to arsenate in the presence of goethite. Environ Sci Technol 46:8044–8051

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  14. Chiavola A, D’Amato E, Baciocchi R (2012) Ion exchange treatment of groundwater contaminated by arsenic in the presence of sulphate. Breakthrough experiments and modeling. Water Air Soil Poll 223:2373–2386

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  15. Barakat MA, Ismat-Shah S (2013) Utilization of anion exchange resin Spectra/Gel for separation of arsenic from water. Arab J Chem 6:307–311

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  16. Kao AC, Chu YJ, Hsu FL, Liao VHC (2013) Removal of arsenic from groundwater by using a native isolated arsenite-oxidizing bacterium. J Contam Hydrol 155:1–8

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  17. Prasad KS, Ramanathan AL, Paul J, Subramanian V, Prasad R (2013) Biosorption of arsenite (As + 3) and arsenate (As + 5) from aqueous solution by Arthrobacter sp biomass. Environ Technol 34:2701–2708

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  18. Rajbhandari R, Shrestha LK, Pradhananga RR (2012) Nanoporous activated carbon derived from Lapsi (Choerospondias Axillaris) seed stone for the removal of arsenic from water. J Nanosci Nanotechno 12:7002–7009

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  19. Lunge S, Singh S, Sinha A (2014) Magnetic iron oxide (Fe3O4) nanoparticles from tea waste for arsenic removal. J Magn Magn Mater 356:21–31

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  20. Basu T, Nandi D, Sen P, Ghosh UC (2013) Equilibrium modeling of As(III, V) sorption in the absence/presence of some groundwater occurring ions by iron(III)–cerium(IV) oxide nanoparticle agglomerates: a mechanistic approach of surface interaction. Chem Eng J 228:665–678

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  21. Aredes S, Klein B, Pawlik M (2013) The removal of arsenic from water using natural iron oxide minerals. J Clean Prod 60:71–76

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  22. Urbano BF, Rivas BL, Martinez F, Alexandratos SD (2012) Water-insoluble polymer-clay nanocomposite ion exchange resin based on N-methyl-D-glucamine ligand groups for arsenic removal. React Funct Polym 72:642–649

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  23. Shao WJ, Li XM, Cao QL, Luo F (2008) Adsorption of arsenate and arseniteanions from aqueous medium by using metal(III)-loaded amberlite resins. Hydrometallurgy 91:138–143

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  24. Lenoble V, Laclautre C, Deluchat V, Serpaud B, Bollinger JC (2005) Arsenic removal by adsorption on iron(III) phosphate. J Hazard Mater B123:262–268

    Article  Google Scholar 

  25. Ansone L, Klavins M, Viksna A (2013) Arsenic removal using natural biomaterial-based sorbents. Environ Geochem Hlth 35:633–642

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  26. Mahler J, Persson I (2013) Rapid adsorption of arsenic from aqueous solution by ferrihydrite-coated sand and granular ferric hydroxide. Appl Geochem 37:179–189

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  27. Guo ZL, Zeng ZZ, Chen Q (2007) Study on adsorption treatment waste leachate with slag. Environ Sanit Eng (Chinese) 15:53–56

    Google Scholar 

  28. Li Y, Fan J (1995) The application of coal cinder in wastewater pretreatment and deep treatment. Environ Sci Dynamic (Chinese) 3:17–19

    Google Scholar 

  29. Wei XS, Yu AM, Han MX, Zhang J, Zhang HL, Wu YW (2012) Coal cinder separation/preconcentration of trace Cu, Pb, and Cd in environmental water samples and determination by flame atomic absorption spectrometry. Atom Spectrosc 33:67–72

    Google Scholar 

  30. Yang J, Wang S, Lu ZB, Yang J, Lou SJ (2009) Converter slag-coal cinder columns for the removal of phosphorous and other pollutants. J Hazard Mater 168:331–337

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  31. Dwivedi C, Raje N, Kumar M, Reddy AVR, Bajaj PN (2012) Application of synthesized mesoporous titania microspheres for arsenic [(III) and (V)] uptake studies. J Radioanal Nucl Chem 294:131–136

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  32. Wu YW, Hu B, Jiang ZC, Feng YQ, Lu P, Li BYZ (2006) Sol-gel zirconia coating capillary microextraction on-line hyphenated with inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry for the determination of Cr, Cu, Cd and Pb in biological samples. Rapid Commun. Rapid Commun Mass Spectrom 20:3527–3534

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  33. Fan XF, Zhang XH, Song XQ (2010) Hydrothermal synthesis and characterization of mesoporous zirconia. Chinese J Appl Chem 27:907–910

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  34. Kosmulski M (2001) Chemical properties of material surfaces. Marcel Dekker, New York, pp 91–156

    Book  Google Scholar 

  35. Macarovscha GT, Bortoleto GG, Cadore S (2007) Silica modified with zirconium oxide for on-line determination of inorganic arsenic using a hydride generation- atomic absorption system. Talanta 71:1150–1154

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  36. Pokhrel D, Viraraghavan T (2008) Arsenic removal from an aqueous solution by modified A. niger biomass: batch kinetic and isotherm studies. J Hazard Mater 150:818–825

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  37. Hao JM, Han MJ, Wang C, Meng XG (2009) Enhanced removal of arsenite from water by a mesoporous hybrid material-Thiol-functionalized silica coated activated alumina. Micropor Mesopor Mat 124:1–7

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  38. Gupta K, Biswas K, Ghosh UC (2008) Nanostructure iron (iii)-zirconium(iv) binary mixed oxide: synthesis, characterization, and physicochemical aspects of arsenic(iii) sorption from the aqueous solution. Ind Eng Chem Res 47:9903–9912

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  39. Hristovski K, Baumgardner A, Westerhoff P (2007) Selecting metal oxide nanomaterials for arsenic removal in fixed bed columns: from nanopowders to aggregated nanoparticle media. J Hazard Mater 147:265–274

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  40. Akin I, Arslan G, Tor A, Ersoz M, Cengeloglu Y (2012) Arsenic(V) removal from underground water by magnetic nanoparticles synthesized from waste red mud. J Hazard Mater 235–236:62–68

    Article  Google Scholar 

Download references

Acknowledgments

This project was financially supported by the National Nature Science Foundation of China (No. 20975031, 21075030), Education Committee of Hubei Province (D20132501), Hubei Key Laboratory of Pollutant Analysis and Reuse Technique (Hubei Normal University) (KL2013M06).

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Chemistry of Rare Metals Collaborative Innovation Center in Hubei Province, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hubei Key Laboratory of Pollutant Analysis and Reuse Technique, Hubei Normal University, Huangshi, 435002, People’s Republic of China

    Xiaoshu Wei, Yiwei Wu, Jing Guo, Hongli Sun & Yang Yu

Authors
  1. Xiaoshu Wei
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Yiwei Wu
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Jing Guo
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  4. Hongli Sun
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  5. Yang Yu
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Yiwei Wu.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Wei, X., Wu, Y., Guo, J. et al. Application of mesoporous zirconia coating on coal cinder for inorganic arsenic removal from aqueous solution. J Radioanal Nucl Chem 303, 1745–1752 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-014-3742-5

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-014-3742-5

Keywords

Search

Navigation