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ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
Volume 22, Issue 21, Pages 16463-16474Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-015-5033-2
Keywords
cis-DCE; Abiotic reductive dechlorination; Mackinawite
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- U.S. Department Of Defense Environmental Security Technology Certification Program - Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Port Hueneme, CA [ER 200226, N47408-02-P-6607]
- KIGAM's Basic Research Projects [GP2015-023, GP2015-014]
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Cis-1,2,-dichloroethylene (cis-DCE) is a toxic, persistent contaminant occurring mainly as a daughter product of incomplete degradation of perchloroethylene (PCE) and trichloroethylene (TCE). This paper reports on abiotic reductive dechlorination of cis-DCE by mackinawite (FeS1-x ), a ferrous monosulfide, under variable geochemical conditions. To assess in situ abiotic cis-DCE dechlorination by mackinawite in the field, mackinawite suspensions prepared in a field groundwater sample collected from a cis-DCE contaminated field site were used for dechlorination experiments. The effects of geochemical variables on the dechlorination rates were monitored. A set of dechlorination experiments were also carried out in the presence of aquifer sediment from the site over a range of pH conditions to better simulate the actual field situations. The results showed that the suspensions of freshly prepared mackinawite reductively transformed cis-DCE to acetylene, whereas the conventionally prepared powder form of mackinawite had practically no reactivity with cis-DCE under the same experimental conditions. Significant cis-DCE degradation by mackinawite has not been reported prior to this study, although mackinawite has been shown to reductively transform PCE and TCE. This study suggests feasibility of using mackinawite for in situ remediation of cis-DCE-contaminated sites with high S levels such as estuaries under naturally achieved or stimulated sulfate-reducing conditions.
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