Abstract
Purpose
The impacts of fly ash on the chemistry of forest floors were previously described in literature, while impacts on soil properties were less recognised. Soil investigations were focussed mainly on increases of pH and base saturations in surface horizons. The purpose of this study was to describe the influence of alkaline fly ash blown out from the dumping site of a lignite-fired power plant on pH changes of ectohumus horizons of Podzols and the morphology of deeper horizons.
Materials and methods
We investigated the soil profiles of Podzols derived from loose quartz sand and developed under pine forest surrounding the dumping site of the power plant Bełchatów, central Poland. In the vicinity of the fly ash dumping site, five Podzol profiles located at a distance of 50 m from the dumping site were investigated, as well as soil profiles located along the transect set at distances of 50, 300, 800 and 2000 m from the dumping site. Control profiles were located at a distance of 7.3 km from the dumping site. Soil morphology was described in the field and the following properties were determined: soil texture, hydrolytic acidity, exchangeable cations, total organic carbon and total nitrogen content.
Results and discussion
The pH values of Podzol ectohumus horizons located close to the dumping site ranged from 6.01 to 7.34 compared to a range of 3.08–3.72 in the control. Ectohumus horizon located 300 m from the dumping site showed a pH range of 4.13–4.26, while at a distance of 800 m, the pH values did not differ from those of the control site. The upper part of the eluvial soil horizons located close to the dumping site had been transformed into transitional AE horizons in which humic substances translocated from ectohumus horizons were accumulated. Moreover, the organic carbon content of this horizon increased compared to the carbon content of the illuvial Bs horizon located below it. Under the influence of alkalisation of upper horizons, the illuvial Bhs horizons vanished and were transformed into Bs horizons.
Conclusions
Changes in soils affected by fly ashes are connected with alkalinisation of ectohumus horizons. Podzolisation processes can be reduced or even completely stopped regarding the distance from the dumping site. Eluvial Podzol horizons located close to the dumping site may be transformed into AE horizons in which humic substances translocated from ectohumus horizons are accumulated. Due to transformation and translocation of organic components, Bhs horizons can be transformed into Bs horizons.
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1 Introduction
Anthropogenic factors strongly modify soil properties; thus, their impacts on chemical, physical and biological properties have been reported widely. The acidification of the soil environment has been described for many locations, while the opposite effect—an increase of soil pH caused by anthropogenic activity—has rarely been studied (Van Breemen et al. 1983; Mandre and Ots 1999; Mandre et al. 2008; Pichler et al. 2009). Alkalisation is a problem frequently associated with the cement industry, limestone quarrying, production of phosphorus compounds and emission of fly ashes. This problem appears in many areas, sometimes at a massive scale, and may even cover areas of more than several thousands of square kilometres (Haapala et al. 1996; Mandre and Ots 1999; Haapala et al. 2001; Langer and Gunther 2001; Mandre et al. 2008; Pichler et al. 2009). One of the major emitters of alkaline ashes, which contain hydroxides and Ca and Mg carbonates (Haynes 2009; Ahmaruzzaman 2010; Ukwattage et al. 2013; Yao et al. 2014; Weber et al. 2015), is lignite-fired power plant. In many countries, including Poland, the combustion of lignite is still the main source of energy; thus, there is a large amount of generated fly ashes, globally estimated to be 750 million t annually (Ahmaruzzaman 2010). Almost 70% of ashes are collected as landfills or on dumping sites (Haynes 2009) from where they may be blown out, contributing to alkalisation of the surrounding environment (Jala and Goyal 2006).
Fly ash impacts on forest vegetation (Mandre and Ots 1999; Ots 2003; Mandre et al. 2008; Zolnierz et al. 2016) and the forest floor chemistry (Klose and Makeshin 2003) were previously described in the literature, while impacts on the mineral part of the soil were less considered. Soil investigations were focussed mainly on pH changes in surface horizons (Haapala et al. 1996; Klose et al. 2001), physical properties (Hartmann et al. 2010a, b) and solubility of heavy metals (Haapala et al. 2001). Fly ashes emitted by lignite-fired power plants affect the surrounding environment, which is clearly marked in the magnetic susceptibility of the ectohumus horizons (Klose et al. 2001) and in significantly higher concentrations of NH4Cl-extractable cations and increased base saturations (Klose and Makeshin 2003). Submicroscopic investigations of forest soils showed that atmospheric fly ash deposition can be detected and identified only in ectohumus horizons (Klose et al. 2001). Enrichment of some trace elements and decrement in dehydrogenase and phosphatase enzymatic activities in soils in the vicinity of coal-fired power plants were also observed (Raja et al. 2015).
Previous studies have evaluated the effects of artificial liming on podzolisation processes and soil morphology (Bain et al. 2003; Lundström et al. 2003a, b); however, studies on the change of acid soil environments as a result of alkaline fly ash deposition are scarce. This regards especially to Podzols, which indicate specific morphology caused by interaction with strongly acidic forest litter layer (Lundström et al. 2000a, b; Buurman and Jongmans 2005). Under such conditions, podzolisation occurs, in which aluminosilicates are strongly altered and products of weathering together with humic substances are moved down the profile, contributing to establishing specific eluvial (E) and illuvial (Bhs) horizons. Deposition of alkali fly ash affects pH values of surface layers of the soil, which may increase organic matter solubility and organic matter leaching (Andersson et al. 2000; Andersson and Nilsson 2001; Aciego Pietri and Brookes 2008). This may disturb natural processes of accumulation and translocation of organic components in Podzol profiles; however, these processes are still not sufficiently understood. The aim of this study was to determine changes in morphology of Podzols under the influence of alkaline fly ash deposited in the vicinity of the dumping site of a lignite-fuelled power plant.
2 Materials and methods
2.1 Area and study objects
The research was conducted in the vicinity of the fly ash dumping site of the power plant Bełchatów, central Poland (51° 19.9′ N; 19° 12.1′ E). Locations of the dumping site and the electric power plant Bełchatów and the profiles investigated are presented in Fig. 1. The area has an annual rainfall of 609 mm and an annual average temperature of 9.3 °C. Dominant wind direction is from southwest to northeast.
The dumping site was built in 1981 in order to store fly ash via the hydraulic method (Fig. 2a). It consists of a 40-m high heap with a surface area of 439 ha. The ash consists mainly of silicon, aluminium and iron and is highly alkaline (pH above 9), which is due to the high amount of calcium (23–29% CaO) occurring in oxide and carbonate forms (Ostrowski 2011).
We investigated soil profiles of Podzols derived from loose quartz sand; the soil had developed under pine forest (Fig. 2b) surrounding the dumping site. Control profiles (K1, K2, K3) were located at a distance of 7.3 km northwest to the dumping site (Fig. 3a, Table 1). In the vicinity of the fly ash dumping site, five Podzol profiles (P1, P2, P3, P4, PN1) within a distance of 50 m from the dumping site were investigated (Fig. 3b, Table 2), and soil profiles located along the transect set in the northeast direction within a distance of 50 (PN1), 300 (PN2), 800 (PN3) and 2000 m (PN4) from the dumping site (Table 3).
2.2 Methods
Soil profile morphology was described in the field (Guidelines for soil description, FAO 2006), and soil samples were collected from each genetic horizon. The collected material was air-dried and sieved through a 2-mm mesh. The following properties were determined in soil fraction <2 mm: soil texture with sedimentation-sieve method according to Bouyoucos, with Casagrande and Prószyński modifications (Gee and Bauder 1986); pH potentiometrically in 1 M KCl; hydrolytic acidity (HA) using the Kappen method (1 M ammonium acetate); exchangeable cations (EC) using the Pallmann method (ammonium acetate); total organic carbon (TOC) via a CS-MAT 5500 analyser (Strohlein GmbH & Co., Kaarst, Germany, currently Bruker AXS Inc., Madison, WI, USA); and total nitrogen content (N) by the Kjeldahl method, while cation exchangeable capacity (CEC) and base saturation (BS) were calculated on the basis of the results of HA and EC.
3 Results
3.1 Control profiles
Control soil profiles were classified as Podzols (FAO-WRB 2014) with a typical soil horizon layout of O–E–Bhs–Bs–C (Table 1). The soil material of all investigated soil profiles, including control and affected soil profiles, indicated similar texture of mineral horizons (Tables 1 and 2), where sand fractions dominate (94–99%). The share of silt and clay fractions was 0–4%.
All investigated control profiles were strongly acidic, with the lowest pH values in the Oea litter horizons, ranging from 3.37 to 3.72. The pH increased down the profile, reaching a value of 4.35 in the parent material horizon, where the impact of acidic components leaching from the ectohumus horizons was strongly limited. The highly acidic nature of the Podzols was reflected in their cation exchange properties (Table 4). Base saturation in eluvial E horizons ranged from 34 to 36% and increased in the deeper horizons to 65–84%. In mineral horizons, the highest values of the cation exchange capacity and soil acidity were found in Bhs horizons, which were due to the highest organic matter content.
Profile distribution of organic carbon was typical for Podzols. The highest content of organic C was found in ectohumus Oi and Oea horizons, which contained large amounts of organic compounds with a low degree of mineralisation. This is demonstrated by a high C/N ratio, ranging between 45 and 51 (Table 1). Due to podzolisation, the content of organic C was very low in E eluvial horizons (4.47–6.14 g kg−1) and much higher in Bhs illuvial horizons (12.36–18.37 g kg−1). Below these horizons, organic C content was significantly lower (1.36–3.27 g kg−1) both in Bs and C horizons.
3.2 Soil profiles at a distance of 50 m from the dumping site
Soils located close to the dumping site are under its strong alkalescent influence. As a result of fly ash blowing out from the surface of the dumping site, ectohumus horizons showed pH values as high as 6.01–7.34 (Table 2), which is unique for Podzols. The pH values decreased gradually with the depth of the soil profiles, but even the deepest C horizons showed higher pH values than the corresponding horizons of the control soils. The content of base cations was therefore very high in top horizons and decreased down the profiles. Consequently, mineral horizons showed the highest values of base saturation in AE horizons (75–85%) and in E eluvial horizons (38–80%). The base cations were dominated by Ca2+, whose share in CEC of AE and E horizons reached 51–79%.
Directly below the ectohumus horizons, AE horizons were present, which had been transformed from previously existing E eluvial horizons (Table 2). This concerns mostly the upper parts of the E horizons, but in some cases, the whole E horizon had been transformed into AE (in the P1 profile, no remnants of E horizon were left). These newly developed horizons differed from the originally existing E horizons in terms of higher TOC contents (6.57–29.77 g kg−1) and darker colours (10YR 5/1–10YR 6/1) (Table 2), which was clearly reflected by their morphology (Fig. 3b). The E horizons indicated much lower TOC contents (2.72–6.93 g kg−1); however, organic C contents were, in some cases, higher in these horizons than in the underlying Bs illuvial horizons.
Previously existing Bhs horizons had been transformed into Bs horizons, indicated by the significantly lower TOC contents (3.64–4.77 g kg−1); still existing Bhs horizons (as in P4 and PN1 profiles) clearly showed lower TOC values (Tables 2 and 3). Furthermore, Bhs horizons showed considerably lower thickness values (1–2 cm).
3.3 Soil profiles located along the transect 50 to 2000 m from the dumping site
The alkalescent influence on properties of Oea horizons in soil profiles located along the transect is distinctly reduced with distance (Table 3). The ectohumus horizons of soil profiles located 300 m from the dumping site still showed a moderate increase of pH values (4.26), while in the PN3 profile, located 800 m from the dumping site, the pH values were comparable to those of the control profiles (K1, K2, K3). Properties of deeper horizons were also similar to control objects. Profiles at 800 and 2000 m from the dumping site showed an acidic reaction in all horizons and were morphologically comparable to the controls with well-developed E eluvial and Bhs illuvial horizons. C contents of these profiles were also similar to the control profiles (even at 300 m from the dumping site).
4 Discussion
Our investigations provide new information on the impacts of deposited alkaline fly ash on Podzol morphology and chemistry. Changes in the soil environment affected by fly ashes emitted by lignite-fired power plants are connected mainly with alkalinisation of ectohumus horizons, where we observed significantly higher concentrations of NH4Cl extractable cations and increased base saturation (Klose and Makeshin 2003). However, these impacts may not be limited to soil surface horizons. Our results show that pH values of Podzol ectohumus horizons located close to a dumping site ranged between 6.01 and 7.34 (Table 2), which is a considerable increase when compared to the control with a range of 3.08–3.72 (Table 1). The alkalisation process was limited to a very short distance. The ectohumus horizon of the profile located 300 m from the dumping site showed a pH range from 4.13 to 4.26, while at a distance of 800 m, the pH values did not differ from those of the control site (Table 3). Similar studies have shown that in the control profiles the pH values generally increased with profile depth, which is typical for Podzols (Buurman and Jongmans 2005; Jamroz et al. 2014; Lundström et al. 2000a, b), while soil profiles located at a distance of 50 m from the dumping site showed a reversed trend. In the deepest horizons (C), the pH values were lower than in the ectohumus (4.52–6.46), but still higher than those in the control profiles (4.26–4.35). This indicates that deposited alkaline fly ash influences whole profiles near the dumping site, while the effect is limited only to the surface soil horizons at a greater distance. The changes in pH are accompanied by modification of sorption properties of affected soils. Especially, basic cations were dominated by Ca2+, which is typical for fly ash-affected forest soils (Klose and Makeshin 2003).
After such strong changes in soil reaction and sorption properties, the podzolisation processes, regarding the distance from the dumping site, were reduced or even completely ceased. Eluvial soil horizons located close to the dumping site had been transformed into transitional AE horizons in which humic substances translocated from the ectohumus horizons were accumulated (Fig. 4). In the P1 profile, even the whole E horizon was transformed into AE. Moreover, organic C contents in this horizon increased compared to those of the illuvial Bs horizon located below. This indicates that due to alkalisation, greater amounts of organic carbon translocated from the litter horizons directly below, contributing to a new horizon where humic substances are accumulated. This is connected with the higher solubility of humic substances at increased pH values (Stevenson 1994), which may result in translocation from the litter zone to the upper part of E horizons. This process would be accelerated by increased organic matter mineralisation (Andersson et al. 2000; Andersson and Nilsson 2001; Lundström et al. 2003a), which is confirmed by the decreased C/N ratio of Oea soil horizons located close to the dumping site. These horizons showed C/N ratios as low as 25–36, while the corresponding control horizons K1, K2 and K3 showed C/N ratios of 45–51. In contrast, the pH value has a well-known effect on soil faunal activity and microbial community composition; under acidic conditions, fungal growth is considerably higher than bacterial growth (Rousk et al. 2009). If organic matter decomposition is mainly dominated by fungi, lower amounts of recalcitrant organic carbon are observed (Heim and Frey 2004). Thus, a drastic increase in soil pH should cause an increase of recalcitrant organic carbon, which is more resistant to decomposition.
Our investigations revealed that under the influence of alkalisation of upper horizons, illuvial Bhs horizons vanished and were transformed into Bs horizons. Bhs soil horizons located close to the dumping site were hardly perceptible, especially in comparison to control profiles. The thickness of this horizon increased along the transect from 2 (PN1 profile) to 13–15 cm at more distant locations (PN3 and PN4 profiles). The explanation of this process is more complicated and requires further detailed investigations. In a previous study, Catoni et al. (2016) found that the labile and recalcitrant organic pool proportions are linked to the parent material likely through its effect on pH. These authors investigated stable organic carbon in illuvial B horizons from Podzols and observed that most developed soils were comparatively more resilient for organic matter conservation than less developed soils which are more prone to C losses. The vanishing of the illuvial Bhs horizons may be due to the destroying of organometal complexes, because they are created only at low pH values (Lundström et al. 2000a, b; Buurman and Jongmans 2005) and their stability decreases with increasing pH (Ferro-Vázquez et al. 2014). Increased mineralisation of humic substances and their solubility and leaching in response to increased pH values may also play a role here (Lundström et al. 2000a, b, 2003b). Finally, the amount of humic substances translocated from E to spodic B horizons is lower, because they are likely stabilised and accumulated in AE horizon. This can be confirmed by the ratio of organic carbon content in Bhs horizon to C content in E horizon, indicating the intensity of organic components translocation. This ratio ranged from 2.01 to 3.26 in the control profiles and from 0.39 to 1.54 in profiles located 50 m from the dumping site. Nevertheless, in order to explain the transformation processes of Bhs horizons to Bs horizons, which are much poorer in organic compounds, further research on humic substances is required.
5 Conclusions
Changes of the soil environment affected by fly ashes from dumping sites of lignite-fired power plants are connected mainly with alkalinisation of ectohumus horizons. Significant changes in pH and base saturation are limited to a negligible distance from the dumping site, especially if the site is surrounded by forest. However, these impacts may be limited not only to the soil surface horizons. In the case of Podzols, podzolisation processes can be reduced or even completely stopped regarding the distance from the dumping site. Eluvial E horizons of Podzols located close to a dumping site may be transformed to transitional AE horizons in which humic substances translocated from ectohumus horizons are accumulated. Due to pH neutralisation processes and, consequently, transformation and translocation of organic components, illuvial Bhs horizons can be transformed into Bs horizons. Nevertheless, the explanation of transformation processes of Bhs horizons to Bs horizons, which are much poorer in organic compounds, requires additional advanced research of humic substances.
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Weber, J., Kocowicz, A., Debicka, M. et al. Changes in soil morphology of Podzols affected by alkaline fly ash blown out from the dumping site of an electric power plant. J Soils Sediments 17, 1852–1861 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11368-016-1599-7
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