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Removal of cobalt and strontium from groundwater by sorption onto fishbone

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Fishbone as a main backfill material of permeable reactive barrier to remediate groundwater contaminated with Co and Sr was investigated through single- and bi-solute competitive sorptions. The single-solute sorption data were fitted by Freundlich, Langmuir and Dubinin-Radushkevich models. The coefficients of determination (R 2 > 0.91) indicated that all models fitted well. Maximum sorption capacities (q mL ) of Co and Sr predicted by the Langmuir model were 0.55 mmol/g and 0.50 mmol/g, respectively. The bi-solute competitive sorption of the metals was analyzed by the Langmuir, competitive Langmuir, Sheindorf-Rebhun-Sheintuch (SRS) and P-factor models. The sorbed amount of one solute in bi-solute system decreased due to competition with the other solute. Langmuir model parameters for single- (q mL and b L ) and bi-solute (q * mL and b * L ) competitive sorptions were compared to analyze the effect of competition between the metals. The competitive Langmuir, SRS and P-factor models predicted the bi-solute competitive sorption data well (R 2 > 0.93).

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Abbreviations

b L :

Langmuir model constant (L/mmol)

b L,i :

Langmuir model constant of a solute i in single-solute sorption (L/mmol)

b * L,i :

Langmuir model constant of a solute i in bi-solute competitive sorption (L/mmol)

C :

Aqueous-phase equilibrium concentration (mmol/L)

C 0 :

Initial concentration (mmol/L) of metal in aqueous solution

C m,i :

Aqueous-phase equilibrium concentration (mmol/L) of a solute i in multi-solute competitive sorption

CLM:

Competitive Langmuir model

E :

Mean free energy (kJ/mol) in Dubinin-Radushkevich model

K F :

Freundlich sorption coefficient [(mmol/g)/(mmol/L)\( ^{{N_{F} }} \)]

K F,i :

Freundlich sorption coefficient obtained from a single-solute system [(mmol/g)/(mmol/L)\( ^{{N_{F} }} \)]

N d :

The number of data points

N F :

Exponent in Freundlich model

N F,i :

Exponent in Freundlich model obtained from a single-solute system

P :

The number of parameters

P i :

P-factor model parameter

q :

Solid-phase equilibrium concentration (mmol/g)

q i,exp :

Solid-phase equilibrium concentration of the experimental data (mmol/g)

q i,pred :

Solid-phase equilibrium concentration of theoretically predicted points (mmol/g)

q m,i :

Solid-phase equilibrium concentration of a solute i in multi-solute competitive sorption (mmol/g)

q mD :

Maximum sorption capacity of Dubinin-Radushkevich model (mmol/g)

q mL :

Maximum sorption capacity of Langmuir model (mmol/g)

q mL,i :

Maximum sorption capacity of solute i in single-solute sorption predicted by Langmuir model (mmol/g)

q * mL,i :

Maximum sorption capacity of solute i in bi-solute competitive sorption predicted by Langmuir model (mmol/g)

R:

Gas constant, 8.314 (J/mole/K)

R 2 :

Coefficient of determination

R L :

Separation factor

RMSE:

Root mean square error

rss:

Residual sum of squares

SSE:

Sum of squared errors

T:

Absolute temperature (K)

α:

SRS model coefficient

α i,j :

Dimensionless competition coefficient for the sorption of solute i in the presence of solute j predicted by SRS model

β:

Dubinin-Radushkevich model parameter (mol2/J2)

ε:

Polanyi potential (J/mol)

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This research was supported by Korea Science and Engineering Foundation (KOSEF) grant funded by the Korean government, the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (grant number: M20709005401-07B0900-40110). The authors would like to acknowledge the Korea Basic Science Institute (Daegu) and Kyungpook National University Center for Scientific Instrument for SEM–EDS, XRF and XRD analyses.

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    Younjin Park, Won Sik Shin & Sang-June Choi

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Park, Y., Shin, W.S. & Choi, SJ. Removal of cobalt and strontium from groundwater by sorption onto fishbone. J Radioanal Nucl Chem 295, 789–799 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-012-1959-8

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