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Bone Char from an Invasive Aquatic Specie as a Green Adsorbent for Fluoride Removal in Drinking Water

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In this study, bone chars were obtained from an alien aquatic species “devilfish” bones by pyrolysis of 500–800 °C. Bone chars were evaluated as a sustainable adsorbent of fluoride, and it was found pyrolyzed bone char at 500 °C adsorbed the most amount of fluoride. Thermodynamic parameters of fluoride adsorption on devilfish bone chars were estimated as ΔH° = 7.213 kJ mol−1, ΔG° = 23.61 kJ mol−1, and ΔS° = 103.4 J mol−1 K−1 indicating that adsorption is endothermic, spontaneous, and with a great affinity of fluoride on bone char. The fluoride desorption study showed that fluoride is desorbed from the material of 0.24 to 20.06%, so the adsorption is considered to be partly reversible. The regeneration of the bone char at 400, 500, and 600 °C was studied, and it was noted that its adsorption capacity decreases slightly, so it could be considered appropriate for the use in water treatment technologies. Adsorption of fluorides from drinking well water of a rural community with dental fluorosis problems and high levels of fluoride in water revealed that by increasing the amount of the bone char of 0.05 to 0.8 g, the disposal of fluoride increases from 69.1 to 98.7%. Lastly, it was established that the bone char synthesized from devilfish is a low-cost, viable, sustainable material to remove fluorides from water and represents an environmental management strategy of this alien species.

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Acknowledgements

Dr. Gladis Judith Labrada Delgado for her contribution to the SEM analysis carried out at IPICyT. Prof. Dr. Juan Carlos Moreno-Piraján also appreciates the financial support granted through the research project number INV-2019-91-1905 from the Research Vice-Rectory of the Universidad de Los Andes.

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This work was supported by Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología, CONACyT, Mexico, under grant nos. CB-2016–286990 and PN-2016–3947.

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  1. Programa Multidisciplinario de Posgrado en Ciencias Ambientales, Agenda Ambiental, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí, S.L.P., 78290, México

    Sergio Armando Cruz-Briano, Nahum Andrés Medellín-Castillo & Paola Elizabeth Díaz-Flores

  2. Centro de Investigación Y Estudios de Posgrado, Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí, S.L.P., 78290, México

    Sergio Armando Cruz-Briano & Nahum Andrés Medellín-Castillo

  3. El Colegio de La Frontera Sur (ECOSUR), Carretera Panamericana Y Periférico Sur S/N, Barrio María Auxiliadora, San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, C.P., 29290, México

    Arturo Torres-Dosal

  4. Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí, S.L.P., 78260, México

    Roberto Leyva-Ramos & Raúl Ocampo-Pérez

  5. Departamento de Química, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Los Andes, 111711, Bogotá, Colombia

    Juan Carlos Moreno-Piraján

  6. Departamento de Química, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 111321, Bogotá, Colombia

    Liliana Giraldo-Gutiérrez

  7. Instituto de Ciencias Biomedicas, Universidad Autonoma de Ciudad Juarez, Cd. Juarez, Chihuahua, 32300, México

    Simón Yobanny Reyes-López

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Sergio Armando Cruz-Briano: investigation, methodology, and writing—original draft. Nahum Andrés Medellín-Castillo: conceptualization, methodology, validation, resources, writing—original draft, writing—review and editing, visualization, supervision, project administration, and funding acquisition. Arturo Torres-Dosal: investigation. Roberto Leyva-Ramos: conceptualization, validation, resources, and writing—review and editing. Juan Carlos Moreno-Piraján: validation and writing—review and editing. Liliana Giraldo-Gutiérrez: validation. Paola Elizabeth Díaz-Flores: methodology, writing—review and editing, and visualization. Simón Yobanny Reyes-López: resources and validation. Raúl Ocampo-Pérez: investigation, writing—review, and editing.

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Cruz-Briano, S.A., Medellín-Castillo, N.A., Torres-Dosal, A. et al. Bone Char from an Invasive Aquatic Specie as a Green Adsorbent for Fluoride Removal in Drinking Water. Water Air Soil Pollut 232, 346 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11270-021-05286-x

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