Predicting the Adsorptive Capacities of Biosolid as a Barrier in Soil to Remove Industrial Contaminants

The major environmental risk of soil pollution is the contamination of groundwater by infiltration of organic and inorganic pollutants which can cause a serious menace. To prevent this risk and to protect the groundwater, we proceeded in this study to test the reliability of a biosolid as barrier to prevent the migration of very dangerous pollutants as ‘Cadmium’ through the different soil layers. In this study, we tried to highlight the effect of several parameters such as: turbidity (different cycle of Hydration/Dehydration), rainfall, effect of initial Cd(II) concentration and the type of soil. These parameters allow us to find the most effective manner to integrate this barrier in the soil. From the results obtained, we found a significant effect of the barrier. Indeed, the recorded passing quantities are lowest for the highest rainfall; we noted also that the barrier has a better affinity towards higher concentrations; the most retained amounts of cadmium has been in the top layer of the two types of soil tested, while the lowest amounts of cadmium are recorded in the bottom layers of soils.




References:
[1] R. Donahue, “Nature des sols et croissance végétale”, Editions
Intercontinentale, Paris, 1975.
[2] K. Suzuki, A. Anegawa, K. Endo, M. Yamada, Y. Ono, Y. Ono,
“Performance evaluation of intermediate cover soil barrier for removal
of heavy metals in landfill leachate ”, Chemosphere 73 (2008) pp 1428–
1435.
[3] P. Godin, “Les sources de pollution des sols: essai de quantification des
risques dus aux éléments traces”, Sciences du sol, 1983.
[4] J. M. Lezcano, F. González, A. Ballester, M. L. Blázquez, J. A. Muñoz,
C. García-Balboa, “Sorption and desorption of Cd, Cu and Pb using
biomass from an eutrophized habitat in monometallic and bimetallic
systems”, Journal of Environmental Management 92 (2011)
2666 e 2674.
[5] Iddou, M.H. Youcef, A. Aziz, M. S. Ouali, “Biosorptive removal of lead
(II) ions from aqueous solutions using Cystoseira stricta biomass: Study
of thesurface modification effect”, Journal of Saudi Chemical Society
(2011) 15, 83–88.
[6] A. Aziz, M. S. Ouali, E. Elandaloussi,L. C. De Menorval, M.
Lindheimer, “Chemically modified olive stone: A low-cost sorbent for
heavy metals and basic dyes removal from aqueous solutions”, Journal
of Hazardous Materials 163 (2009) 441–447
[7] J. Cuevas, A. Ruiz, I. de Soto, T. Sevilla, J. Procopio, P. Da Silva, J.
Gismera, M. Regadío, N. S. Jiménez, M. R. Rastrero, S. Leguey, “The
performance of natural clay as a barrier to the diffusion of municipal
solid waste landfill leachate”, Journal of Environmental Management,
95 (2012) pp S175-S181.
[8] G. Qi, D. Yue, J. Liu, R. Li, X Shi, L. He, J. Guo, H. Miao, Y. Nie,
“Impact assessment of intermediate soil cover on landfill stabilization by
characterizing landfilled municipal solid waste”, Journal of
Environmental Management, 128 (2013) 259-265.
[9] E. Mena, C. Ruiz, J. Villasenor, M. A. Rodrigo, P. Canizares,
“Biological permeable reactive barriers coupled with electrokinetic soil
flushing for the treatment of diesel-polluted clay soil”, Journal of
Hazardous Materials 283 (2015) 131–139.
[10] O. Gibert, J. L. Cortina, J. de Pablo, C. Ayora “Performance of a fieldscale
permeable reactive barrier based on organic substrate and zerovalent
iron for in situ remediation of acid mine drainage”, Environ Sci
Pollut Res 20 (2013) 7854–7862.
[11] D. Zhou, Y. Li, Y. Zhang, C. Zhang, X. Li, Z. Chen, J. Huang, X. Li, G.
Flores, M. Kamon, “Column test-based optimization of the permeable
reactive barrier (PRB) technique for remediating groundwater
contaminated by landfill leachates”, Journal of Contaminant Hydrology,
168,(2014), 1-16.
[12] R. K. Macdonald, P. V. Ridd, J. C. Whinney, P. Larcombe, D. T. Neil, “
Towards environmental management of water turbidity within open
coastal waters of the Great Barrier Reef ”, Marine Pollution Bulletin, 74
(2013) pp 82–94.
[13] Y.J. Du, S. Hayashi, “A study on sorption properties of Cd2+ on Ariake
clay for evaluating its potential use as a landfill barrier material”,
Applied Clay Science, 32 (2006) pp 14–24.
[14] R. Doherty, D.H. Phillips, K.L. McGeough, K.P. Walsh, R.M. Kalin,
“Development of modified flyash as a permeable reactive barrier
medium for a former manufactured gas plant site, Northern Ireland”,
Environ Geol 50 (2006) 37–46.
[15] M. P. Koivulaa, K. Kujala, H. Rönkkömäki, M. Mäkelä, “Sorption of
Pb(II), Cr(III), Cu(II), As(III) to peat, and utilization of the sorption
properties in industrial waste landfill hydraulic barrier layers ”, Journal
of Hazardous Materials, 164 (2009) 345–352.
[16] J. Wantanaphong S. J. Mooney E. H. Bailey, “Natural and waste
materials as metal sorbents in permeable reactive barriers (PRBs) ”,
Environ Chem Lett 3 (2005) 19–23.