Carbonaceous materials produced from coffee ground (virgin CG, CG600, CG800, and CG1000) were prepared. Specific surface areas, mean pore diameters, pore volumes, and SEM images of the CGs were investigated. The specific surface areas were in the order CG1000 (23.5 m2/g) < CG800 (139.3 Å) < CG1000 (273.8 Å). The amounts of nitrate, nitrite, and fluoride ions adsorbed in a single solution system were greater than the amounts adsorbed in a ternary solution system; this indicated that the ions were competitively adsorbed onto the CGs in the complex solution system. Moreover, the adsorption mechanism was ion exchange with chloride ion onto the CGs in a 1:1 ratio. Adsorption isotherms were fitted to both the Freundlich equation and the Langmuir equation. The amounts adsorbed increased with increasing temperature. The adsorption affinities onto the CGs were in the order nitrate ion < nitrite ion
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Ogata, F., Tominaga, H., Kangawa, M., Inoue, K., Tanaka, Y., Ueda, A., … Kawasaki, N. (2012). Adsorption of nitrate, nitrite, and fluoride ions by carbonaceous material produced from coffee grounds in a complex solution system. E-Journal of Surface Science and Nanotechnology, 10, 493–498. https://doi.org/10.1380/ejssnt.2012.493
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