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Simultaneous decontamination of cross-polluted soils with heavy metals and PCBs using a nano-metallic Ca/CaO dispersion mixture

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In the present work, we investigated the use of nano-metallic calcium (Ca) and calcium oxide (CaO) dispersion mixture for the simultaneous remediation of contaminated soils with both heavy metals (As, Cd, Cr, and Pb) and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). Regardless of soil moisture content, nano-metallic Ca/CaO dispersion mixture achieved about 95–99 % of heavy metal immobilization by a simple grinding process. During the same treatment, reasonable PCB hydrodechlorination efficiencies were obtained (up to 97 %), though higher hydrodechlorination efficiency by preliminary drying of soil was observed.

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Acknowledgments

The authors are thankful to Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) (Project ID: 24310059 and 25550058) and Juten-Kenkyu Project in 2013 for providing the financial support for this study. Special thanks to Mr. Mitsunori Kakeda for his technical support.

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  1. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Ulsan, Ulsan, 680-749, Republic of Korea

    Srinivasa Reddy Mallampati

  2. Department of Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, Prefectural University of Hiroshima, 562 Nanatsuka-Cho, Shobara City, Hiroshima, 727-0023, Japan

    Yoshiharu Mitoma & Shogo Sakita

  3. Environmental Research and Management Center, Hiroshima University, 1-5-3 Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima, Hiroshima, 739-8513, Japan

    Tetsuji Okuda

  4. Department of Organic Chemistry, Politehnica University of Bucharest, Bucharest, 060042, Romania

    Cristian Simion

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Mallampati, S.R., Mitoma, Y., Okuda, T. et al. Simultaneous decontamination of cross-polluted soils with heavy metals and PCBs using a nano-metallic Ca/CaO dispersion mixture. Environ Sci Pollut Res 21, 9270–9277 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-014-2830-y

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