background and objectives: the mobility, bioavailability and environmental fate of heavy metal ions in soil are controlled by sorption onto soil minerals and solid organic matter. the sorption is strongly affected by the presence of various low-molecular-weight organic acids. the main objective of this study was to investigate the effects of oxalic acid on sorption of cd on clay fraction of a s...

Biochar (BC) produced from agricultural crop residues has proven effective in sorbing organic contaminants. This study evaluated the ability of dairy-manure derived biochar to sorb heavy metal Pb and organic contaminant atrazine. Two biochar samples were prepared by heating dairy manure at low temperature of 200 degrees C (BC200) and 350 degrees C (BC350). The untreated manure (BC25) and a comm...

a chelating resin of polystyrene divinylbenzene resin functionalized by 1-(2-pyridylazo) 2- naphtol (psdvb-pan) has been synthesized and its sorption properties have been investigated for preconcentration and determination of cadmium at μg/l level by flame atomic absorption spectrometry. the procedure is based on the sorption of cd(ii) ions on a minicolumn of synthesized chelating resin. the...

gaz-angubin is a sweet exudate naturally produced by an insect from the gavan-e-gaz-angubin plant. adsorption and desorption isotherms for a gaz-angubin sample were determined at 15° and 25°c over a range of relative humidity from 0 to 90% using a dynamic vapor sorption system. at different levels of relative humidity, changes in sample mass were continuously measured versus time and described ...

Two series of displacement experiments with isoproturon and metribuzin herbicides were performed on two undisturbed grassed filter strip soil cores, under unsaturated steady-state flow conditions. Several rainfall intensities (0.070, 0.147, 0.161, 0.308 and 0.326 cm h(-1)) were used. A water tracer (bromide) was simultaneously injected in each displacement experiment. A descriptive analysis of ...

The sorption of lead ion onto palm kernel fiber was studied by performing batch kinetic sorption experiments. The batch sorption model, based on a pseudo-second-order mechanism, was applied to predict the rate constant of sorption, the equilibrium capacity and the initial sorption rate with the effects of the initial solution pH and fiber dose. Equilibrium concentrations were evaluated with the...

conclusions results showed that ann is a powerful tool for predicting sorption coefficients using soil organic carbon content variations. results the multilayer perceptron (mlp) artificial neural networks (ann) model with 1-6-1 layout, predicted nearly 98% of the variance of kd as well as 94% of the koc variations with soil organic carbon content. materials and methods data of this study were d...

Rice straw charcoal, soot and fly ash (collectively termed "black carbon" or BC), which were found to widely exist in the environment and exhibit strong sorption of many organic compounds, were prepared for this study, and recorded as RC, SC, and FC, respectively. The characterization, sorption isotherm, and the effect of pH (from 3.0 to 9.0) on sorption capacity of each BC were investigated. I...