Chapter 6
Metal Oxides for Removal of Arsenic
Contaminants from Water
Tamil Selvan Sakthivel, Ananthakumar Soosaimanickam,
Samuel Paul David, Anandhi Sivaramalingam, and Balaji Sambandham
Abstract Arsenic (As), one of the highest harmful pollutants found in drinking/
groundwater, is owing to have unfavourable impacts, for example, skin disease, on
human health. The new Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) assigned the
maximum contaminations of arsenic in groundwater is 10μg/L, and several drinking
water plants are needing extra treatment to accomplish this standard. In recent years,
several researchers have been attempting to discover practical and expendable
adsorbents for some water filtration systems that are utilized in many arsenic
endemic territories. Metal oxide-based adsorbents had been proved to be the best
strategies for arsenic expulsion/removal. This chapter reviews the removal of both
arsenite (As III) and arsenate (As V) species from drinking/groundwater. Also, we
give an overview of traditionally applied strategies to expel both arsenic species to
incorporate coagulation-flocculation, oxidation, and membrane techniques. More
focus has been given to adsorption methods, type of adsorption and factors affecting
adsorption. Moreover, brief summary has been given for an advancement on the
T. S. Sakthivel (*)
Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE), Advanced Materials Processing and
Analysis Center (AMPAC), University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA
e-mail: Tamilselvan.Sakthivel@ucf.edu
A. Soosaimanickam
Institute of Materials (ICMUV), University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain
S. Paul David
HiLASE Centre, Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Science,
Dolni Brezany, Czech Republic
Department of Physics, Kalasalingam Academy of Research and Education,
Krishnankoil, Tamil Nadu, India
A. Sivaramalingam
Department of Physics, Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai, Tamil Nadu,
India
B. Sambandham
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Chonnam National University,
Gwangju, South Korea
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
S. Rajendran et al. (eds.), Metal, Metal-Oxides and Metal-Organic Frameworks for
Environmental Remediation, Environmental Chemistry for a Sustainable World 64,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68976-6_6
147
Metal Oxides for Removal of Arsenic
Contaminants from Water
Tamil Selvan Sakthivel, Ananthakumar Soosaimanickam,
Samuel Paul David, Anandhi Sivaramalingam, and Balaji Sambandham
Abstract Arsenic (As), one of the highest harmful pollutants found in drinking/
groundwater, is owing to have unfavourable impacts, for example, skin disease, on
human health. The new Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) assigned the
maximum contaminations of arsenic in groundwater is 10μg/L, and several drinking
water plants are needing extra treatment to accomplish this standard. In recent years,
several researchers have been attempting to discover practical and expendable
adsorbents for some water filtration systems that are utilized in many arsenic
endemic territories. Metal oxide-based adsorbents had been proved to be the best
strategies for arsenic expulsion/removal. This chapter reviews the removal of both
arsenite (As III) and arsenate (As V) species from drinking/groundwater. Also, we
give an overview of traditionally applied strategies to expel both arsenic species to
incorporate coagulation-flocculation, oxidation, and membrane techniques. More
focus has been given to adsorption methods, type of adsorption and factors affecting
adsorption. Moreover, brief summary has been given for an advancement on the
T. S. Sakthivel (*)
Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE), Advanced Materials Processing and
Analysis Center (AMPAC), University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA
e-mail: Tamilselvan.Sakthivel@ucf.edu
A. Soosaimanickam
Institute of Materials (ICMUV), University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain
S. Paul David
HiLASE Centre, Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Science,
Dolni Brezany, Czech Republic
Department of Physics, Kalasalingam Academy of Research and Education,
Krishnankoil, Tamil Nadu, India
A. Sivaramalingam
Department of Physics, Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai, Tamil Nadu,
India
B. Sambandham
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Chonnam National University,
Gwangju, South Korea
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
S. Rajendran et al. (eds.), Metal, Metal-Oxides and Metal-Organic Frameworks for
Environmental Remediation, Environmental Chemistry for a Sustainable World 64,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68976-6_6
147