Journal
TRANSACTIONS OF NONFERROUS METALS SOCIETY OF CHINA
Volume 19, Issue 5, Pages 1353-1359Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/S1003-6326(08)60449-5
Keywords
hyperaccumulator; Sedum alfredii Hance; phytoremediation; detoxication; leaching
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Funding
- Hi-tech Research and Development Program of China [KY20080577000002]
- China Postdoctoral Science Foundation [20080431028]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [50804056]
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Leaching of heavy metals from Sedum a fredii Hance biomass was studied with ammonia-ammonium chloride solution as leaching agent. The research was carried out in two phases: 1) a leaching study to determine the zinc extraction efficiency of this leaching agent, and 2) a thermodynamic analysis to identify the likely reactions and stable Zn(II) species formed in the leaching systems. Taguchi orthogonal experiment, with four variable parameters, leaching temperature, molar ratio of NH4Cl to NH3, leaching time and solid-to-liquid(L/S) ratio, and each at three levels, was used to optimize the experiment parameters by the analysis of variances. The results indicate that leaching temperature has the most dominant effect on metal extraction performance, followed by molar ratio of NH4Cl to NH3, solid-to-liquid ratio and leaching time. The optimum condition was obtained as follows: temperature of 60 degrees C, molecular ratio of NH4Cl to NH3 of 0.6, leaching time of 2 h and solid-to-liquid ratio of 5:1. The total zinc leaching efficiency under optimum conditions reaches 97.95%. The thermodynamic study indicates that the dominant species produced by the leaching process should be the soluble Zn(NH3)(4)(2+).
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