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Immobilization of heavy metals in contaminated soils by modified hydrochar: Efficiency, risk assessment and potential
Yu Xia1, Hongjun Liu2, Yanchuan Guo3
1Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China.
Abstract:
The modified hydrochar was prepared by a facile one-pot lime-assisted hydrothermal synthesis approach and the modified hydrochar and pristine hydrochar were investigated to immobilize the heavy metals (HMs) of Pb and Cd in contaminated soils. The results showed that the modified hydrochar exerted significantly enhanced effectiveness in immobilizing Pb and Cd comparing to pristine hydrochar, resulting from the increased surface functionality and non-crystalline properties, increased pH value and enhanced electronegativity of hydrochar. By introduction with 5% modified hydrochar, the contaminated soils showed the highest value of 34.5% (Pb) and 8.1% (Cd) reductions in leaching toxicity, and significant improvements of 95.1% (Pb) and 64.4% (Cd) were observed. In addition, the concentrations of acid soluble fraction were remarkably reduced by 54.0% (Pb) and 27.0% (Cd), and the reductions were much higher than that of 29.5% (Pb) and 8.3% (Cd) for 5% pristine hydrochar treatment. The enhanced surface complexation, precipitation and cation-π interaction played an important role in the immobilization of HMs in soils. The present study offered a novel and cost-effective approach to prepare soil amendment from waste biomass towards HMs immobilization in contaminated soils.
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