Removal of Contaminants from Aqueous Solution by Reaction with Iron Surfaces
| Autor: | C. Amrhein, S. R. Qiu, M. J. Roberson, M. L. Hunt, Jory A. Yarmoff, and G. W. Flynn, Leanna C. Giancarlo, H.-F. Lai,†,‡ |
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| Rok vydání: | 2000 |
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| Zdroj: | Langmuir. 16:2230-2236 |
| ISSN: | 1520-5827 0743-7463 |
| DOI: | 10.1021/la990902h |
| Popis: | Irrigation drainage and industrial wastewaters often contain elevated levels of toxic oxyanions and oxycations such as selenate, chromate, and uranyl. A potential remediation method is to react contaminated water with zero-valent iron, which transforms the mobile contaminants into immobile forms. In this work, iron foil was exposed to aqueous solutions containing the relevant ions, and the reacted surfaces were characterized by scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). STM images collected in situ show that the protrusions on the foil surface associated with iron oxides are smoothed out by the reaction. XPS indicates that partially reduced Se(IV) and Cr(III) are adsorbed on the surface, while uranium is deposited as U(VI), i.e., without reduction. More Se and Cr are deposited when the atmospheric gases are removed from solution because of the elimination of a competing process in which dissolved O2 increases the thickness of the iron oxide overlayer to the point where... |
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