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JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
Volume 442, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2022.130084
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Plastic particles; Transport behaviors; Freeze-thaw cycles; Natural soils; Porous media
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Freeze-thaw treatment has different effects on the mobility of plastic particles, and the transport behavior of plastic particles varies in different types of soils after freeze-thaw treatment.
Freeze-thaw (FT) cycles would alter physical and chemical properties of soil and thus influence the transport of plastic particles (one type of emerging contaminant with great concerns). This study was designed to investigate the effects of FT treatment on the mobility of plastic particles (nanoplastics as representative) in columns packed with natural soils (i.e. loamy sand and sandy soil, quartz sand employed as comparison). We found that FT treatment of different types of porous media would induce different transport behaviors of plastic particles. Specifically, FT treatment of quartz sand did not affect plastic particles mobility. While FT treatment of loamy sand and sandy soil increased plastic particles transport. The increased pore sizes and disintegration of small soil particles from soils (the detached soil would serve as mobile vehicle for the transport of plastic particle) led to the facilitated mobility of plastic particles in two types of soils after FT treatment. The presence of preferential flow paths induced by FT treatment also drove to the enhanced mobility of plastic particles in sandy soil with FT treatment. This study clearly showed that the mobility of model plastic particles in two types of natural soils was greatly enhanced by FT treatment.
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