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Published on: March 18, 2022
Biofunctional characteristics of lignite fly ash modified by humates: a new soil conditioner
Konstantinos Chassapis1, Maria Roulia, Evangelia Vrettou
1Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis, 157 71 Athens, Greece.
Abstract:
Fly ash superficially modified with humic substances from the Megalopolis lignitic power plant was prepared and evaluated for agricultural uses. UV-vis spectrophotometry and IR spectroscopy revealed that fly ash shows high sorption efficiency towards humic substances. Adsorption proceeds stepwise via strong Coulombic and hydrophophic forces of attraction between guest and host materials. Langmuir, Freundlich, BET, Harkins-Jura, and Dubinin-Radushkevich isotherm models were employed to evaluate the ongoing adsorption and shed light to the physicochemical properties of the sorbent-adsorbate system. Humic substances desorption and microbial cultivation experiments were also carried out to examine the regeneration of the humates under washing and explore the possibility of this material acclimatizing in real soil conditions, both useful for biofunctional agricultural applications.
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