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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 March 2011
Titanium dioxide has been extensively tested in environmental applications, especially inseparation technologies. In the present study, anatase nanoparticles were synthesized byusing a sol-gel method, and batch adsorption experiments were carried out to analyzearsenic removal capacity of the anatase nanoparticles from water. The maximum arsenicremoval percentages were found ~ 84 % for As(III) at pH 8 and ~98% for As(V) at pH 3,respectively, when 5 g/l anatase nanoparticles were used at an initial arsenicconcentration of 1 mg/l. The results of the sorption experiments, which take intoconsideration the effects of equilibrium concentration on adsorption capacity, wereanalyzed with two popular adsorption models, Langmuir and Freundlich models. From thecomparison of R2 values, the adsorption isotherm for As(III) was fittedsatisfactorily well to the Langmuir equation (R2 > 0.996) while theadsorption behavior of As(V) on anatase nanoparticles was described better with Freundlichequation (R2 > 0.991). This study proposes the potential adsorbent materialfor water which is contaminated with arsenic species.