Organo-clay complexes in soil play an important role in the immobilization and persistence of xenobiotics. In this study, the fate of 14 C-labeled 4-(3,5-dimethylhept-3-yl)phenol (NP) and 4-chloro-2mehtylphenoxyacetic acid (MCPA) in soil was examined using incubation periods from 1d to 180d (NP) and 1d to 120d (MCPA). Special emphasis was on the distributions of the compounds and its degradatio...

The undrained shear strength is a paramount parameter in determining the consistency and ultimate bearing capacity of clay layer. This resistance can be determined by in-situ tests, such as field vane test or laboratory including portable test, triaxial, simple compression penetrometer (i.e. Swedish cone). However, cone are most commonly used geotechnical experts. In this paper, relationships b...

Many soils have clay-enriched horizons that are thought to result from pedogenic processes. Various hypotheses are proposed for expected clay size-distributions in soil profiles. The average size of clay crystallites determined by the amount of broadening of x-ray diffraction peaks ranged from 160 to >2000A 0 , but the lack of trends in four loess-de• rived soils did not permit the hypotheses t...

high solid content poly (styrene-co-butyl acrylate) latex ( with 20% and 40% solid content) including high amounts of cloisite 30b (7 wt% and 10 wt%) were kinetically investigated. gravimetric method via measuring the rate of polymerization, number of particles and average number of radicals per particle was used. results showed that by increasing the solid content; the average diameter of poly...

Chlorinated solvents in the subsurface are a widespread problem with thousands of impacted sites in the United States. A large body of literature exists that evaluates treatment of chlorinated solvents using granular zero valent iron, which has been shown to treat chlorinated solvents via reductive dechlorination. Much of this literature is conducted within the context of permeable reactive bar...

No. DiMa0147 Structure of a Functionalized Oxacarbocyanine / Saponite Clay Nanofilm E. DiMasi (BNL), R. Ras and R. Schoonheydt (K. Univ. Leuven, BELGIUM) Beamline(s): X22A Introduction: Nanoscale functionalized organic films are of technological importance, for example in the case of dye molecules, where assembly into well ordered thin films produces desirable optical properties for miniaturize...

This paper discusses about preparation of biodegradable polymer /clay nanocomposites based on organically modified montmorillonite clay; i.e. cloisite 10A and biodegradable polymer chitosan by solution mixing technique and their characterization. The nanocomposites were successfully prepared and their structures were characterized by powder x-ray diffraction (XRD), particle size analyzer (Beckm...

considerable information exists in the literature showing that expansive layer silicates are not the only clay minerals present in vertisols. however, the presence of a very high clay content dominated by fine clay, regardless of the clay type, together with the wetting and drying cycle in the soil can also produce a high shrink-swell potential. we studied some vertisols with diverse parent mat...