Implication of Electrostatic Forces on the Adsorption Capacity of a Modified Brick for the Removal of Divalent Cations from Water
Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=53020#.VLR7MsnQrzE Author(s) Oscar Allahdin 1 , Michel Wartel 2 , Joseph Mabingui 1 , Abdel Boughriet 2,3* Affiliation(s) 1 Chaire Unesco “On the Management of Water”, Lavoisier Laboratory of Hydrosciences, Faculty of Sciences, University of Bangui, Bangui, Central African Republic . 2 Laboratory of Geosystems, and Analytical and Marine Chemistry, University of Lille, UMR CNRS 8217, BatC8, 59655 Villeneuve d’Ascq cedex, France . 3 Department of Chemistry, I.U.T of Béthune, University of Lille, Northern France, Rue de l’Université, B.P.819, 62408 Béthune Cedex, France . ABSTRACT Adsorption properties of brick for the removal of divalent cations increased significantly after this material were pre-activated by HCl and subsequently impregnated with ferrihydrite. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS) analys...