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Effect of a humic acid colloid on the sorption behaviour of Sr onto soil in a candidate high-level radioactive waste geological disposal site

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We explored the effect of the presence or absence of humic acid (HA) on the sorption behaviour of Sr onto soil. We examined three different experimental cases for Sr sorption: (1) sorption in the presence of only colloidal HA, (2) sorption in the presence of only soil and (3) sorption in the presence of both colloidal HA and soil (HS). A batch technique was used to study the influencing factors, including the amount of colloidal HA, solid content, pH, initial concentration of Sr and contact time. The experiments showed that the influencing factors significantly affected the sorption process. For example, in the case of soil and HS, the sorption percentage increased rapidly with increasing solid content at m/V < 20 g/L, changing from 8.35% and 37.54% to 49.09% and 77.03%, respectively. Moreover, scanning electron microscopy and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy were used to characterize samples. The kinetics and isotherms of Sr were best described by the pseudo-second-order and Langmuir models, which indicated that the process was controlled by chemisorption and uniform monolayer sorption with constant energy on the outer surface. These findings provide valuable information for predicting strontium migration in radioactive waste disposal sites.

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    Rui Zuo, Minhua Chen, Yuanhui Lin, Jie Yang, Shuhe Jin, Weifeng Yue, Jinsheng Wang & Yanguo Teng

  2. Engineering Research Center of Groundwater Pollution Control and Remediation, Ministry of Education, Beijing, 100875, China

    Rui Zuo, Minhua Chen, Yuanhui Lin, Jie Yang, Shuhe Jin, Weifeng Yue, Jinsheng Wang & Yanguo Teng

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Zuo, R., Chen, M., Lin, Y. et al. Effect of a humic acid colloid on the sorption behaviour of Sr onto soil in a candidate high-level radioactive waste geological disposal site. Environ Sci Pollut Res 26, 25235–25246 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-019-05545-9

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