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Adsorptive Properties of Cation Added Hydrous Bismuth Oxide on Nitrate Sorption

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Groundwater contamination by non-metallic inorganic contaminants has become a severe problem to the human kind and its healthy survival. Nitrate contamination of drinking water has become a major health threat in many countries of the world including India and this issue needs to be resolved through developing advance technology to scale down the nitrate concentration and to make the water fit for drinking. With the ultimate objective of developing an inorganic and sustainable sorptive media for nitrate abatement from drinking water, hydrous bismuth oxide (HBO) has been synthesized and studied as an adsorbent for aqueous medium in the present work. Hydrous bismuth oxides based adsorbents are found to have nitrate sorptive properties along with their possible application in drinking water treatment. In an attempt of improving the potentials of HBO, incorporation of cations such as copper, iron and two transition metals each of which has vividly been used in the preparation of bi-metallic adsorbents as well as polymeric ligand exchangers. Calcium and Magnesium were included for their wide availability and possible value addition towards the purpose. HBO adsorbent mixed with cations, which has shown highest nitrate sorptive potential was characterized using X-Ray diffraction pattern, Scanning electron microscopy and Fourier Transform Infrared spectroscopy analyses. It was observed that incorporation of these individual cations, the Mg and Ca did not show any improvement whereas the presence of Fe and Cu within the matrix of HBO has shown significant improvement in nitrate sorption potential of HBO and it was inferred that presence of Ca, Mg and Fe appear to be helpful in the formation of polymeric structures. Scherrer crystallite size slightly improved in presence of Mg and Fe.

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    Manish Ranjan & Prabhat Kumar Singh

  2. Chitkara University School of Engineering and Technology, Chitkara University, Baddi, Himachal Pradesh, India

    Arun Lal Srivastav

  3. Department of Hydrology, IIT Roorkee, Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India

    Vikram Kumar

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Ranjan, M., Singh, P.K., Srivastav, A.L. et al. Adsorptive Properties of Cation Added Hydrous Bismuth Oxide on Nitrate Sorption. J. Water Chem. Technol. 41, 283–291 (2019). https://doi.org/10.3103/S1063455X19050035

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