Fluoride occurrence in groundwater systems at global scale and status of defluoridation–state of the art

V Kimambo, P Bhattacharya, F Mtalo, J Mtamba… - Groundwater for …, 2019 - Elsevier
The occurrence of elevated concentrations of fluoride in the drinking water supply in many
regions of the world has caused widespread prevalence of dental and skeletal fluorosis. In …

Fluoride removal from water by adsorption—a review

A Bhatnagar, E Kumar, M Sillanpää - Chemical engineering journal, 2011 - Elsevier
Fluoride contamination in drinking water due to natural and anthropogenic activities has
been recognized as one of the major problems worldwide imposing a serious threat to …

Fluoride in drinking water and defluoridation of water

S Jagtap, MK Yenkie, N Labhsetwar… - Chemical reviews, 2012 - ACS Publications
1.1. Fluoride in Water Water is an essential natural resource for sustaining life. Water is
certainly not free everywhere. However, chemical composition of surface or subsurface is …

Applications of chitin-and chitosan-derivatives for the detoxification of water and wastewater—a short review

A Bhatnagar, M Sillanpää - Advances in colloid and Interface science, 2009 - Elsevier
Chitin and chitosan-derivatives have gained wide attention as effective biosorbents due to
low cost and high contents of amino and hydroxyl functional groups which show significant …

A review on adsorption of fluoride from aqueous solution

M Habuda-Stanić, M Ergović Ravančić, A Flanagan - Materials, 2014 - mdpi.com
Fluoride is one of the anionic contaminants which is found in excess in surface or
groundwater because of geochemical reactions or anthropogenic activities such as the …

CuO nanorods: a potential and efficient adsorbent in water purification

PK Raul, S Senapati, AK Sahoo, IM Umlong, RR Devi… - Rsc Advances, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
The present work deals with a simple in situ soft chemical synthesis of nanoscale copper (II)
oxide, together with its characterization and a study of the adsorption and desorption …

Aluminium fumarate metal-organic framework: A super adsorbent for fluoride from water

J Dechnik, C Janiak, S De - Journal of hazardous materials, 2016 - Elsevier
Potential of aluminium fumarate metal organic framework (MOF) for fluoride removal from
groundwater has been explored in this work. The laboratory produced MOF exhibited …

[HTML][HTML] Adsorption of methyl orange onto protonated cross-linked chitosan

R Huang, Q Liu, J Huo, B Yang - Arabian Journal of Chemistry, 2017 - Elsevier
The adsorption of methyl orange (MO) from aqueous solutions on protonated cross-linked
chitosan was studied in a batch system. The results showed that the adsorption of MO onto …

Recognition and sensing of fluoride anion

M Cametti, K Rissanen - Chemical Communications, 2009 - pubs.rsc.org
Fluoride anion recognition is attracting a mounting interest in the scientific community due to
its duplicitous nature. It is a useful chemical for many industrial applications, and it has been …

A review of fluoride in African groundwater and local remediation methods

KMK Kut, A Sarswat, A Srivastava, CU Pittman Jr… - Groundwater for …, 2016 - Elsevier
Groundwater is the major source of drinking water supply in the bulk of African urban and
rural communities. However, groundwater in some parts of the African countries contains …