Study of Removal of Fluoride from Ground Water of Hisar City Using Brick Powder

Abstract

Water is essential component for survival of all form of life on Earth. Ground water is unsafe 
due to one or other reasons of excessive exploitation or contamination. One such contaminant is fluoride. 
Fluoride beyond the prescribed limit in drinking/ground water causes a lot of complication to human health. 
There is no cure of the disease, prevention is the only option. The present study focus on de-fluoridation of 
ground water using low cost brick powder as adsorbent. The sample was collected from Vegetable Market Lo
cation of Hisar City of Haryana State (INDIA). Batch adsorption studied carried out to analyze the effect of 
parameters contact time, adsorbent dose and initial concentration for de-fluoridation. The experiment studies 
shows that maximum removal of fluoride in ground water observed 53.48 % at 1.0 gm/100ml concentration 
and 120 minutes contact time