Removal of 2,4,6-trichlorophenol from a solution by humic acids repeatedly extracted from a peat soil |
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Authors: | Tzou Yu-Min Wang Shan-Li Liu Jen-Chyi Huang Ying-Ying Chen Jen-Hshuan |
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Affiliation: | Department of Soil & Environmental Sciences, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung 40227, Taiwan. ymtzou@dragon.nchu.edu.tw |
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Abstract: | Humic acid (HA) is one of the major components of soil organic matter. It strongly affects the sorption behavior of organic and inorganic contaminants in soils. To obtain a better understanding of the interactions of contaminants with HA, a repeated extraction technique has been applied to a peat soil to obtain HA fractions with varying aliphaticity and aromaticity, which were subsequently correlated to the sorption properties of 2,4,6-trichlorophenol (TCP). HA fractions were extracted repeatedly using an alkaline solution and each HA fraction was separated into two portions with an air-drying or re-suspending (denoted as RSHAs) process. Solid-state (13)C NMR and elemental analysis demonstrated that the aromaticity and polarity of HAs decreased with extractions. Kinetic results indicated that air-dried HAs exhibited two-step first order sorption behavior with a rapid stage followed by a slower stage. The slower sorption is attributed to the diffusion of 2,4,6-TCP in the condensed aromatic domains of HAs. Conversely, sorption of 2,4,6-TCP on RSHAs was extremely rapid and could not be fitted with any kinetic model. For air-dried HAs the sorption capacity (K(oc)) was weakly correlated with the chemical compositions of HAs. However, a positive trend between K(oc) and aromaticity was observed for RSHAs. Compared with the results of air-dried HAs with their counterparts of RSHAs, it is therefore concluded that air-drying may alter the structure of HAs through artificially creating a more condensed domain in HAs. The structural alternation may result in an incorrect interpretation of the relationship between sorption capacity and chemical composition of HAs and a misjudgment of the transport behavior of 2,4,6-TCP in soils and sediments. |
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Keywords: | Aliphaticity Aromaticity 2 4 6-Trichlorophenol Nonlinear sorption Linear sorption Sorption isotherm |
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