Removal of cobalt and strontium from groundwater by sorption onto fishbone

Younjin Park, Won Sik Shin, Sang June Choi

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Abstract

Fishbone as a main backfill material of permeable reactive barrier to remediate groundwater contaminated with Co and Sr was investigated through single- and bi-solute competitive sorptions. The single-solute sorption data were fitted by Freundlich, Langmuir and Dubinin-Radushkevich models. The coefficients of determination (R2 > 0.91) indicated that all models fitted well. Maximum sorption capacities (qmL ) of Co and Sr predicted by the Langmuir model were 0.55 mmol/g and 0.50 mmol/g, respectively. The bi-solute competitive sorption of the metals was analyzed by the Langmuir, competitive Langmuir, Sheindorf-Rebhun-Sheintuch (SRS) and P-factor models. The sorbed amount of one solute in bi-solute system decreased due to competition with the other solute. Langmuir model parameters for single- (q mL and b L ) and bi-solute (qmL * and b L *) competitive sorptions were compared to analyze the effect of competition between the metals. The competitive Langmuir, SRS and P-factor models predicted the bi-solute competitive sorption data well (R2 > 0.93).

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)789-799
Number of pages11
JournalJournal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry
Volume295
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 2013

Keywords

  • Cobalt
  • Fishbone
  • Groundwater
  • Permeable reactive barrier (PRB)
  • Sorption
  • Strontium

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