Journal of Ecology and Rural Environment ›› 2023, Vol. 39 ›› Issue (10): 1308-1315.doi: 10.19741/j.issn.1673-4831.2022.0311

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Comparison of Multi-stage Washing Effects of Different Washing Agents on Arsenic-contaminated Soil

WANG Chong, WU Chun-fa, FU Zhao-cong, ZHANG Yu, LIU Dong, ZHANG Jin-lu   

  1. School of Applied Meterology, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing 210044, China
  • Received:2022-04-11 Online:2023-10-25 Published:2023-10-23

Abstract: Arsenic(As) is one of the common pollutants in contaminated sites, and it has strong carcinogenicity. Chemical washing is one of the commonly used remediation technologies for arsenic-contaminated soil, which could remove pollutants from soil in a short time. Although various washing agents have certain elution effects on arsenic-contaminated soils, single washing is difficult to meet the remediation requirements of heavily polluted soils. In order to study the multi-stage washing and remediation effect of different washing agents on arsenic-contaminated soil, a new green chelating washing agent methylglycine diacetic acid (MGDA) and a commonly used phosphate washing agent potassium dihydrogen phosphate (KH2PO4) were selected as the washing agents in this study. The indoor three-stage washing simulation experiment was carried out on the heavily arsenic polluted soil with a concentration of 891 mg·kg-1 (solid-liquid ratio 1∶3). The As removal efficiencies of different washing agents and the changes chemical forms of As in the soil with or without washing agents were analyzed. The results showed that the removal efficiencies of As from soil by 0.12 mol·L-1 MGDA reached up to 41.11%, which was significantly higher than that by 0.6 mol·L-1 KH2PO4 (28.60%) and by the composite of 0.12 mol·L-1MGDA and 0.6 mol·L-1 KH2PO4 (10.88%-24.79%). MGDA has better removal efficiencies for aluminum-arsenic, calcium-arsenic and iron-arsenic; and KH2PO4 has better removal efficiencies for aluminum-arsenic and iron-arsenic. There were antagonistic effects between MGDA and KH2PO4 in the process of composite washing, and they are not suitable for composite washing.

Key words: arsenic, soil washing, washing agents, arsenic speciation, remediation effect

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