Grape pomace as a biosorbent for fluoride removal from groundwater.

ABSTRACT: This study presents a new type of biomass material for defluoridation from water; the material was prepared by loading tetravalent zirconium ions onto grape pomace produced from grape juicing and wine factories. Experiments showed that the optimum pH of defluoridation is around 3.0, and the fluorine removal efficiency could reach 96.13% for one-time contact. In batchwise adsorption tests, it was very interesting to find that even at pH values near 10, at which traditional adsorbents usually do not function for defluoridation, the removal efficiency of fluoride was still more than 90% for the Zr(iv)-loaded grape pomace (Zr(iv)-GP) biosorbent; proton release from Zr(iv)-GP was confirmed to cause an automatic decrease of the pH, which can save additional acid consumption in the case of one-ti

SUBMITTER: Zhang Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9061190 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature