Enhanced uranium sorption on aluminum oxide pretreated with arsenate. Part I: Batch uptake behavior

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 4446-4451

  Tang, Yuanzhi ^a,b   Reeder, Richard J ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINA LOADING; ALUMINA SURFACE; ALUMINUM OXIDES; BATCH EXPERIMENTS; ENHANCED STABILITY; HIGH AFFINITY; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; PRE-TREATMENT; PRETREATMENT PROCESS; REMOBILIZATION; SOLUTION CONCENTRATION; TERNARY SURFACE COMPLEXES; TREATMENT PROCESS;

DESORPTION; EXPERIMENTS; TRANSURANIUM ELEMENTS; URANIUM; URANIUM ALLOYS; URANIUM COMPOUNDS;

ALUMINA;

ALUMINUM OXIDE; ARSENIC ACID; PHOSPHATE; URANIUM;

ALUMINUM OXIDE; ARSENATE; DESORPTION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; PH; PHOSPHATE; REMEDIATION; REMOBILIZATION; SORPTION; URANIUM; WASTE TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CHEMICAL REACTION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DESORPTION; PRECIPITATION; SOIL ACIDITY; SOIL POLLUTION; SOIL QUALITY; SOIL TREATMENT;

ADSORPTION; ALUMINUM OXIDE; ARSENATES; URANIUM; WATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE;

EID: 67449128245     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es802369m     Document Type: Article

References (35)

1. Duff, M. C.; Amrhein, C. Method for the separation of uranium (VI) and (VI) oxidation states in natural waters. J. Chromatogr., A 1996, 743, 335-340. (Pubitemid 26317375)
2. Langmuir, D. Aqueous Environmental Geochemistry; Prentice-Hall, Inc.: Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1997; pp 495-512.
3. Duff, M. C.; Coughlin, J. U.; Hunter, D. B. Uranium coprecipitation with iron oxide minerals. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 2002, 66, 3533-3547.
4. 2+ on anion-modified and pristine hydrous oxide surfaces studied by electrophoretic mobility and X-ray absorption spectroscopy. J. Colloid Interface Sci. 1998, 205, 380-389.
5. Wang, K.; Xing, B. Adsorption and desorption of cadmium by goethite pretreated with phosphate. Chemosphere 2002, 48, 665-670. (Pubitemid 34815108)
6. Li, W.; Zhang, S.; Shan, X. Surface modification of goethite by phosphate for enhancement of Cu and Cd adsorption. Colloids Surf., A 2007, 293, 13-19. (Pubitemid 44940861)
7. Yoon, S. J.; Helmke, P. A.; Amonette, J. E.; Bleam, W. F. X-ray absorption and magnetic studies of trivalent lanthanide ions sorbed on pristine and phosphate-modified boehmite surfaces. Langmuir 2002, 18, 10128-10136.
8. Adebowale, K. O.; Unuabonah, I. E.; Olu-Owolabi, B. I. Adsorption of some heavy metal ions on sulfate- and phosphate-modified kaolin. Appl. Clay Sci. 2005, 29, 145-148. (Pubitemid 40393589)
9. Unuabonah, E. I.; Adebowale, K. O.; Olu-Owolabi, B. I. Kinetic and thermodynamic studies of the adsorption of lead (II) ions onto phosphate-modified kaolinite clay. J. Hazard. Mater. 2007, 144, 386-395. (Pubitemid 46719630)
10. Ranatunga, T. D.; Taylor, R. W.; Schulthess, C. P.; Ranatunga, D. R. A.; Bleam, W. F.; Senwo, Z. N. Lead sorption on phosphate-pretreated kaolinite: Modeling, aqueous speciation, and thermodynamics. Soil Sci. 2008, 173, 321-331. (Pubitemid 351774761)
11. Liu, X. W.; Byrne, R. H. Rare earth and yttrium phosphate solubilities in aqueous solution. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 1997, 61, 1625-1633. (Pubitemid 27403621)
12. Sylwester, E. R.; Hudson, E. A.; Allen, P. G. The structure of uranium(VI) sorption complexes on silica, alumina, and montmorillonite. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 2000, 64, 2431-2438. (Pubitemid 30483824)
13. Froideval, A.; Nero, M. D.; Gaillard, C.; Barillon, R.; Rossini, I.; Hazemann, J. L. Uranyl sorption species at low coverage on Al-hydroxide: TRLFS and XAFS studies. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 2006, 70, 5270-5284. (Pubitemid 44615513)
14. Tang, Y.; MacDonald, J.; Reeder, R. J. Enhanced uranium sorption on aluminum oxide pretreated with arsenate. Part II: Spectroscopic studies. Environ. Sci. Technol. 2009, DOI: 10.1021/es802370d.
15. Guo, Z. J.; Yu, X. M.; Guo, F. H.; Tao, Z. Y. Th(IV) adsorption on alumina: Effects of contact time, pH, ionic strength, and phosphate. J. Colloid Interface Sci. 2005, 288, 14-20. (Pubitemid 40779496)
16. Arai, Y.; Elzinga, E. J.; Sparks, D. L. X-ray absorption spectroscopic investigation of arsenate and arsenate adsorption at the aluminum oxide-water interface. J. Colloid Interface Sci. 2001, 235, 80-88. (Pubitemid 32547735)
17. Goldberg, S.; Johnston, C. T. Mechanisms of arsenic adsorption on amorphous oxides evaluated using macroscopic measurements, vibrational spectroscopy, and surface complexation modeling. J. Colloid Interface Sci. 2001, 234, 204-216. (Pubitemid 32545814)
18. Tang, Y.; Reeder, R. J. Uranyl and arsenate cosorption on aluminum oxide. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 2009, 73, 2727-2743.
19. 3-water interface. Spectrochim. Acta A 1999, 55, 861-872.
20. 3. Chem. Mater. 2006, 18, 3242-3248.
21. Roelofs, F.; Vogelsberger, W. Dissolution kinetics of nanodispersed γ-alumina in aqueous solution at different pH: Unusual kinetic size effect and formation of a new phase. J. Colloid Interface Sci. 2006, 303, 450-459. (Pubitemid 44547968)
22. Yang, X.; Sun, Z.; Wang, D.; Forsling, W. Surface acid-base properties and hydration-dehydration mechanisms of aluminum (hydr)oxides. J. Colloid Interface Sci. 2007, 308, 395-404. (Pubitemid 46316852)
23. Carrier, X.; Marceau, E.; Lambert, J. F.; Che, M. Transformations of γ-alumina in aqueous suspensions 1. Alumina chemical weathering studied as a function of pH. J. Colloid Interface Sci. 2007, 308, 429-437. (Pubitemid 46304011)
24. Bargar, J. R.; Reitmeyer, R.; Davis, J. A. Spectroscopic confirmation of uranium(VI)-carbonato adsorption complexes on hematite. Environ. Sci. Technol. 1999, 33, 2481-2484. (Pubitemid 29340098)
25. Bargar, J. R.; Reitmeyer, R.; Lenhart, J. J.; Davis, J. A. Characterization of U(VI)-carbonato ternary complexes on hematite: EXAFS and electrophoretic mobility measurements. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 2000, 64, 2737-2749. (Pubitemid 30693215)
26. Elzinga, E. J.; Tait, C. D.; Reeder, R. J.; Rector, K. D.; Donohoe, R. J.; Morris, D. E. Spectroscopic investigation of U(VI) sorption at the calcite-water interface. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 2004, 68, 2437-2448. (Pubitemid 38629766)
27. Kowal-Fouchard, A.; Drot, R.; Simoni, E.; Ehrhardt, J. J. Use of spectroscopic techniques for uranium(VI)/montmorillonite interaction modeling. Environ. Sci. Technol. 2004, 38, 1399-1407. (Pubitemid 38270684)
28. Baumann, N.; Brendler, V.; Arnold, V.; Geipel, G.; Bernard, G. Uranyl sorption onto gibbsite studied by time-resolved laser-induced fluorescence spectroscopy (TRLFS). J. Colloid Interface Sci. 2005, 290, 318-324. (Pubitemid 41262107)
29. 3. J. Colloid Interface Sci. 1980, 75, 373-385.
30. 3-water interface. Langmuir 1996, 12, 2969-2975.
31. Lefevre, G.; Duc, M.; Lepeut, P.; Caplain, R.; Fedoroff, M. Hydration of γ-alumina in water and its effects on surface reactivity. Langmuir 2002, 18, 7530-7537. (Pubitemid 35383171)
32. Parkhurst, D. L.; Appelo, C. A. J. User's Guide to PHREEQC: A Computer Program for Speciation, Batch Reaction, One-Dimensional Transport, and Inverse Geochemical Calculations, version 2; U. S. Geological Survey, Water Resources Investigations Report 99-4259: Denver, CO, 1999; p 310.
33. Rutsch, M.; Geipel, G.; Brendler, V.; Bernhard, G.; Nitsche, H. Interaction of uranium(VI) with arsenate(V) in aqueous solution studied by time-resolved laser-induced fluorescence spectroscopy (TRLFS). Radiochim. Acta 1999, 86, 135-141.
34. Arai, Y.; Sparks, D. L. Residence time effects on arsenate surface speciation at the aluminum oxide-water interface. Soil Sci. 2002, 167, 303-314. (Pubitemid 34604646)
35. Laiti, E.; Persson, P.; Ohman, L. O. Balance between surface complexation and surface phase transformation at the alumina-water interface. Langmuir 1998, 14, 825-831. (Pubitemid 128592834)