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Article Dans Une Revue Journal of Hazardous Materials Année : 2011

Kinetics as a tool to assess the immobilization of soil trace metals by binding phase amendments for in situ remediation purposes.

Gilles Varrault

Résumé

Many soil remediation techniques consist in decreasing the mobility of trace metals by means of adding trace metal binding phases. For this study, whose aim is to assess the efficiency of soil remediation method by binding phase amendment, a kinetic fractionation method that provides the labile and slowly labile trace metal amounts in soil has been introduced. Manganese oxides (vernadite) and insolubilized humic acids (IHA) have been used as binding phases for the remediation of four heavily polluted soils. Vernadite amendments are effective for lead and cadmium remediation, whereas IHA amendments are only effective for copper remediation. In most cases, the labile metal fractions decrease dramatically in amended soils (up to 50%); on the other hand, the amounts of total extracted metal near the point of thermodynamic equilibrium often show no significant difference between the amended soil and the control soil. These results highlight the utility of kinetic fractionation in assessing the efficiency of soil remediation techniques and, more generally, in evaluating trace metal mobility in soils and its potential advantages compared to extraction schemes performed under equilibrium conditions. In the future, this kinetic method could be considerably simplified so as to consume much less time allowing its routine use.

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hal-00676382 , version 1 (05-03-2012)

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Gilles Varrault, Alain Bermond. Kinetics as a tool to assess the immobilization of soil trace metals by binding phase amendments for in situ remediation purposes.. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2011, 192 (2), pp.808-12. ⟨10.1016/j.jhazmat.2011.05.097⟩. ⟨hal-00676382⟩
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