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  • Title: Antimonate uptake by calcined and uncalcined layered double hydroxides: effect of cationic composition and M2+/M3+ molar ratio.
    Author: Dore E, Frau F.
    Journal: Environ Sci Pollut Res Int; 2018 Jan; 25(1):916-929. PubMed ID: 29076021.
    Abstract:
    This study gives a contribution to assess the efficacy of some LDHs (layered double hydroxides) in Sb(V) uptake and understand the mechanisms involved in the removal process. Uncalcined nitrate Mg/Al LDHs and the mixed Mg-Al oxides derived from calcined carbonate Mg/Al LDHs mainly remove Sb(OH)6- from aqueous solution through the formation of a brandholzite-like phase (a non-LDH compound with general formula Mg[Sb(OH)6]2·6H2O), although with a different efficiency (< 50 and 90-100% of Sb(V) removed, respectively). The formation of a brandholzite-like compound highlights the fundamental role of Mg in the removal process. The Sb(OH)6- removal capacity of uncalcined nitrate Mg/Al LDHs increases from 22 to 46% as the Mg/Al molar ratio decreases from 4 to 2 thanks to the increasing excess of positive charge of brucite-like sheets and the expanding interlayer thickness due to the different spatial orientations of nitrate groups (flat for Mg/Al = 4, perpendicular for Mg/Al = 2). The presence of Fe3+ in the trivalent cationic site of carbonate LDHs (Mg/(Al + Fe) = 3/(0.5 + 0.5)) improves the Sb(OH)6- removal capacity of their calcined products. When Mg is replaced by Zn in the divalent cationic site of carbonate LDHs and the sorption experiments are performed using the mixed Zn-Al oxides derived from calcination, Sb(OH)6- is mainly removed from the solution through the reconstruction of an antimonate LDH structure (i.e., a zincalstibite-like compound with general formula Zn2Al(OH)6[Sb(OH)6]). The removal efficiency of calcined carbonate Zn/Al LDHs is high and comparable to that of calcined carbonate Mg/Al LDHs; however, the mechanisms involved in the removal process are substantially different: entrance of Sb(OH)6- in the interlayer in the first case, adsorption of Sb(OH)6- onto the surface and formation of a new phase (a brandholzite-like compound) in the second case. In both cases, the removal processes are described with the pseudo-second-order kinetic model; the theoretical maximum adsorption capacity determined with the Langmuir isotherm results to be 4.54 and 4.37 mmol g-1 for calcined carbonate Mg/AlFe and Zn/Al LDHs, respectively.
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