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:The bark of Moringa oleifera, a cheap and readily available natural biopolymeric resource material, found to significantly reduce coliform load and turbidity in contaminated water is investigated in this paper. Its surface and adsorptive properties are investigated to explore its adsorptive potential in removing V(V) from aqueous solutions. Surface properties were investigated using FTIR, HRSEM/EDS, IC, and BET-N2 adsorption techniques. Adsorptive properties were investigated by optimizing adsorption parameters such as pH, temperature, initial metal concentration, and adsorbent dosage, using V(V) as an adsorbate. The adsorption-desorption isotherms are typical of type II with a H3 hysteresis loop and is characteristic of a largely macroporous material. Bottle ink pores are observed, which can provide good accessibility of the active sites, even though the internal BET surface area is typically low (1.79 g/m2). Solution pH significantly influences the adsorptive potential of the material. The low surface area negatively impacts on the adsorption capacity, but is compensated for by the exchangeable anions (Cl-, F-, PO43-, NO3-, and SO42-) and cations (Ca2+, K+, Mg2+, and Al3+) at the surface and the accessibility of the active sites. Adsorption isotherm modeling show that the surface is largely heterogeneous with complex multiple sites and adsorption is not limited to monolayer.
journal_name
Environ Monit Assessjournal_title
Environmental monitoring and assessmentauthors
Mnisi RL,Ndibewu PPdoi
10.1007/s10661-017-6329-0subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2017-11-04 00:00:00pages
606issue
12eissn
0167-6369issn
1573-2959pii
10.1007/s10661-017-6329-0journal_volume
189pub_type
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