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ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION
Volume 159, Issue 7, Pages 1896-1904Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2011.03.026
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Colloidal transport; Natural organic matter; pH-ionic strength effect; Conformation change; Deposition site coverage
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- Queen's University, Belfast
- SPACE
- University of Vienna
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This study, for the first time, investigates and quantifies the influence of slight changes in solution pH and ionic strength (IS) on colloidal microsphere deposition site coverage by Suwannee River Humic Acid (SRHA) in a column matrix packed with saturated iron-oxide coated sand. Triple pulse experimental (TPE) results show adsorbed SRHA enhances microsphere mobility more at higher pH and lower IS and covers more sites than at higher IS and lower pH. Random sequential adsorption (RSA) modelling of experimental data suggests 1 mu g of adsorbed SRHA occupied 9.28 +/- 0.03 x 10(9) sites at pH7.6 and IS of 1.6 mMol but covered 2.75 +/- 0.2 x 10(9) sites at pH6.3 and IS of 20 mMol. Experimental responses are suspected to arise from molecular conformation changes whereby SRHA extends more at higher pH and lower ionic strength but is more compact at lower pH and higher IS. Results suggest effects of pH and IS on regulating SRHA conformation were additive. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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