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Investigation of naphtalene sulfonate compounds sorption in a soil artificially contaminated using batch and column
A Esposito1, A Del Borghi, F Vegliò
1Dipartimento di Ingegneria Chimica e di Processo GB Bonino, Facolta' di Ingegneria, Universita' degli Studi di Genova, Albaro, Italy.
Abstract:
In the present work desorption tests of an artificially contaminated soil by naphatelene sulphonated compounds have been carried out by soil washing realised by water at different pH: Naphtalene-1,5-disulfonic acid (1-5 NDS), 2-naphthol-6,8 disulphonic acid (G-acid) and sodium beta-naphtalene-sulphonate (beta-salt) have been selected as more representative organic compounds present in the ex industrial site of ACNA (Cengio, SV, Italy) in which very serious contamination levels of several pollutants are present both in the soils and surface waters. Equilibrium batch tests have been carried out in order to find the best operative condition in column washing tests. The obtained results can be considered very preliminary but useful to arrange a next experimental work that will be realised on real contaminated soils.

