This study investigated the removal of phosphorus (PO43-P) from water samples by SnO2 and WO3 nanoparticles (NPs). The effects of adsorbent dosage, pH, contact time and temperature with an initial concentration of 50 mg L1 of P were investigated. SEM- EDX, FTIR, XRD, and BET analyses were performed to characterize these nanoparticles. The results indicated that the maximum adsorption capacity of SnO2 and WO3 NPs was 21.5 and 19.0 mg g1, respectively and occurred at pH ¼ 3. Within 40 min of oper- ation, about 47.2% and 45.2% of P ion were removed from the solutions by SnO2 and WO3 NPs, respectively. The kinetics of P adsorption from solutions was analyzed by fitting the experi- mental data to the pseudo-first and second-order kinetic models. The result showed that the pseudo-second-order kinetics model provided much better R2 values. In the multi-component solu- tions, in the presence of Cl, NO3 and Cr2O72 ions, the adsorp- tion rates decreased to (26.2% and 28.5%), (27.2% and 30.0%), and (48.0% and 33.0%) by SnO2 and WO3 NPs, respectively. Thermodynamic data (DG< 0) fitting showed that the reactions of adsorption of P were spontaneous. In general, the nanopar- ticles of SnO2 had better efficiency in the removal of phosphorous from water.
