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Bharat Baruah1, Grayson D Phillips1, Daniel R Ferreira2
1Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA, 30144-5591, USA.
Abstract:
We assessed the aptitude of cesium (Cs+) binding by Keggin type polyoxometalates (POMs) and compared the results with the Cs+ binding by sodium tetrakis(4-fluorophenyl)-borate (Na-TFPB). In this work, we aimed to establish a system to treat radioactive Cs+ contaminated soil with POMs economically. We evaluated the effect of initial Cs+ concentration (0.1M) and precipitant (POMs and TFPB) concentrations (0.01M) on Cs+ precipitation. Our comparison of Cs+ precipitation by three different POMs and TFPB was obtained by Inductively Coupled Plasma Optical Emission Spectroscopy (ICP-OES). We synthesized POMs molybdovanadophosphoric acid, H5PMo10V2O40 (MVPA), and silicotungstic acid, H4SiW12O40 (STA), and used commercially available phosphotungstic acid, H3PW12O40 (PTA), and TFPB. Cs-doped pure phase vermiculite was also used to demonstrate the extraction potential of Cs+ by TFPB, STA, and PTA. All the POMs and corresponding Cs-bound POMs were characterized by UV-visible spectroscopy, Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), Raman spectroscopy, and X-ray powder diffraction (XRD). In this simulation study, we demonstrated that the Cs+ removal by POMs is much more effective than TFPB and could be a promising method for the treatment of radiocesium contaminated soil.
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