Performance and mechanism of La-Fe metal-organic framework as a highly efficient adsorbent for fluoride removal from mine water

Water fluoride pollution has caused non-negligible harm to the environment and humans, and thus it is crucial to find a suitable treatment technology. In this study, [email protected] adsorbent was synthesized for the defluoridation of mine water. The results showed that the optimum conditions for defluoridation by [email protected] were pH close to 7.0, the initial F− concentration of 10 mg/L, the dosage of 0.5 g/L and the adsorption time of 240 min. Compared with SO42‒, Cl‒, NO3‒, Ca2+ and Mg2+, CO32‒ and HCO3‒ presented severer inhibition on fluoride uptake by [email protected] The adsorption process fits well with the pseudo-second-order kinetic model and Freundlich model, and the maximum adsorption capacity of Langmuir model was 95 mg/g. Fixed-bed adsorption results indicated that fluoride in practical fluorinated mine water could be effectively removed from 3.6 mg/L to less than 1.5 mg/L within 130 bed volume (BV) by using 1.5 g [email protected] Furthermore, the adsorbent still had good adsorption capacity after regeneration, which confirms the great application potential of [email protected] as a fluoride ion adsorbent. The mechanism analysis showed that [email protected] adsorption of fluorine ions is a physicochemical reaction driven by electrostatic attraction and ion exchange.