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JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
Volume 411, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2021.125129
Keywords
PAHs; Organic carbon speciation; Thermal treatment; Binding site; Infrared microspectroscopy
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Funding
- National Key R&D Program of China [2018YFC1801002]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21876188]
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Thermal treatment can efficiently remove volatile pollutants and distinctly change the speciation of organic carbon and behaviors of residual pollutants. Increased temperature enhances desorption efficiency of PAHs but decreases their bioaccessibility. Aromatic carbon plays a key role in controlling the desorption of residual PAHs during thermal treatment or n-butanol extraction.
Thermal treatment can not only efficiently remove volatile pollutants but also distinctly alter the speciation of organic carbon (C) and the behaviors of residual pollutants in contaminated soils. Here we examined the distribution and bioaccessibility of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in industrially contaminated site soils affected by thermal treatment (temperature ranging of 105?650 ?) using synchrotron-based infrared microspectroscopy and n-butanol extraction (a mild solvent extractant). In the pristine soils, the sequestration and distribution of PAHs were simultaneously controlled by aromatic C, aliphatic C and clay minerals. Desorption efficiency of PAHs was substantially increased with increasing temperature, whereas the residual PAHs were strongly immobilized within their binding sites evidenced by their dramatically decreased bioaccessibility. Aliphatic and carboxylic C were gradually decomposed and/or carbonized with increasing temperature. In contrast, aromatic C remained relatively recalcitrant during the thermal treatment and was the key controlling factor for the desorption of residual PAHs in the soils with either thermal treatment or n-butanol extraction. This study is the first to visualize the changes in the binding sites and bioaccessibility of PAHs induced by thermal treatment, which have important implications for understanding the sequestration mechanisms of organic pollutants in soil and optimizing the remediation technique.
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