U(VI) sorption on montmorillonite in the absence and presence of carbonate: A macroscopic and microscopic study

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 93, Issue , 2012, Pages 262-277

  Marques Fernandes, M ^a   Baeyens, B ^a   Dahn R ^a   Scheinost, A C ^b   Bradbury, M H ^a  

^a PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b INSTITUTE OF ION BEAM PHYSICS AND MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBONATE; COMPLEXATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ION EXCHANGE; MONTMORILLONITE; OXYGEN; PH; SORPTION;

EID: 84869880243     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2012.04.017     Document Type: Article

References (59)

1. Amayri S., Reich T., Arnold T., Geipel G. and Bernhard G. (2005) Spectroscopic characterization of alkaline earth uranyl carbonates. J. Solid State Chem. 178(2), 567-577.
2. Ankudinov A. L., Ravel B., Rehr J. J. and Conradson S. D. (1998) Real-space multiple-scattering calculation and interpretation of x-ray-absorption near-edge structure. Phys. Rev. B 58(12), 7565.
3. Arai Y., McBeath M., Bargar J., Joye J. and Davis J. (2006) Uranyl adsorption and surface speciation at the imogolite-water interface: self-consistent spectroscopic and surface complexation models. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 70(10), 2492-2509.
4. Bachmaf S., Planer-Friedrich B. and Merkel B. J. (2008) Effect of sulfate, carbonate, and phosphate on the uranium (VI) sorption behavior onto bentonite. Radiochim. Acta 96(6), 359-366.
5. Bacmann M. and Bertaut E. F. (1967) Structure du nouveau compose UFeO4. Bull. Soc. fr. Miner. Cristallogr. 90, 257-258.
6. Baeyens B. and Bradbury M. H. (1995a) A quantitative mechanistic description of Ni, Zn and Ca sorption on Na-montmorillonite. Part I: Physico-Chemical Characterization and Titration Measurements, PSI Bericht Nr. 95-10, Villigen PSI, Switzerland.
7. Baeyens B. and Bradbury M. H. (1995b) A quantitative mechanistic description of Ni, Zn and Ca sorption on Na-montmorillonite. Part II: Sorption Measurments, PSI Bericht Nr. 95-11, Villigen PSI, Switzerland.
8. Baeyens B. and Bradbury M. H. (1997) A mechanistic description of Ni and Zn sorption on Na- montmorillonite.1. Titration and sorption measurements. J. Contam. Hydrol. 27(3-4), 199-222.
9. Baeyens B. and Bradbury M. H. (2004) Cation exchange capacity measurements on illite using the sodium and cesium isotope dilution technique: effects of the index cation, electrolyte concentration and competition: modeling. Clays Clay Miner. 52(4), 421-431.
10. 3. J. Colloid Interface Sci. 185(2), 473-492.
11. Bargar J. R., Reitmeyer R., Lenhart J. J. and Davis J. A. (2000) Characterization of U(VI)-carbonato ternary complexes on hematite: EXAFS and electrophoretic mobility measurements. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 64(16), 2737-2749.
12. Bond D. L., Davis J. A. and Zachara J. M. (2007) Uranium(VI) release from contaminated vadose zone sediments: estimation of potential contributions from dissolution and desorption. In Adsorption of Metals to Geomedia II: Variables, Mechanisms, and Model Applications (eds. M. O. Barnett and D. B. Kent). Elsevier.
13. Bradbury M. H. and Baeyens B. (1997) A mechanistic description of Ni and Zn sorption on Na- montmorillonite. 2. Modelling. J. Contam. Hydrol. 27(3-4), 223-248.
14. Bradbury M. H. and Baeyens B. (2005) Modelling the sorption of Mn(II), Co(II), Ni(II), Zn(II), Cd(II), Eu(III), Am(III), Sn(IV), Th(IV), Np(V) and U(VI) on montmorillonite: linear free energy relationships and estimates of surface binding constants for some selected heavy metals and actinides. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 69(22), 875-892.
15. Burns P. C. and Finch R. (1999) Uranium: mineralogy, geochemistry and the environment. Rev. Mineral. (Washinton DC).
16. Burns P. C. (2005) U6+ minerals and inorganic compounds: insight into an expanded structural hierarchy of crystal structures. Can. Mineral. 43, 1839-1894.
17. Catalano J. G. and Brown, Jr., G. E. (2004) Analysis of uranylbearing phases by EXAFS spectroscopy: Interferences, multiple scattering, accuracy of structural parameters, and spectral differences. Am. Mineral. 89(7), 1004-1021.
18. Catalano J. G. and Brown G. E. (2005) Uranyl adsorption onto montmorillonite: Evaluation of binding sites and carbonate complexation. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 69(12), 2995-3005.
19. 3 (1102) surfaces. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 69(14), 3555-3572.
20. Chisholm-Brause C., Conradson S. D., Buscher C. T., Eller P. G. and Morris D. E. (1994) Speciation of uranyl sorbed at multiple binding sites on montmorillonite. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 58(17), 3625-3631.
21. Citrin P. H. (1985) Bond lengths and coordination numbers from L2,3-edge versus K-edge surface extended x-ray-absorption fine structure. Phys. Rev. B 31(2), 700-721.
22. 2O. Acta Crystallogr. Sect. C Cryst. Struct. Commun. 48, 1-4.
23. Dent A. J., Ramsay J. D. F. and Swanton S. W. (1992) An EXAFS study of uranyl ion in solution and sorbed onto silica and montmorillonite clay colloids. J. Colloid Interface Sci. 150(1), 45-60.
24. Elzinga E. J., Tait C. D., Reeder R. J., Rector K. D., Donohoe R. J. and Morris D. E. (2004) Spectroscopic investigation of U(VI) sorption at the calcite-water interface. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 68(11), 2437-2448.
25. Finch R. J., Cooper M. A., Hawthorne F. C. and Ewing R. C. (1999) Refinement of the crystal structure of rutherfordine. Can. Mineral. 37(4), 929-938.
26. Guillaumont R., Fanghänel T., Fuger J., Grenthe I., Neck V., Palmer D. A. and Rand M. H. (2003) Update on the Chemical Thermodynamics of Uranium, Neptunium, Plutonium, Americium and Technetium. Elsevier, Amsterdam.
27. Hennig C., Reich T., Dähn R. and Scheidegger A. M. (2002) Structure of uranium sorption complexes at montmorillonite edge sites. Radiochim. Acta 90(9-11), 653-657.
28. Hennig C. (2006) Polarization effects in EXAFS spectra at the uranium L1 and L3 edge - a comparison between theory and experiment. In Recent Advances in Actinide Science (eds. I. May, R. Alvarez and N. Bryan). RCS Publishing, The Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, pp. 716-718.
29. Hudson E. A., Allen P. G., Terminello L. J., Denecke M. A. and Reich T. (1996) Polarized x-ray-absorption spectroscopy of the uranyl ion: comparison of experiment and theory. Phys. Rev. B 54(1), 156.
30. Kelly S. D., Kemner K. M. and Brooks S. C. (2007) X-ray absorption spectroscopy identifies calcium-uranyl-carbonate complexes at environmental concentrations. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 71(4), 821-834.
31. Kim S. (2001) Sorption mechanism of U(VI) on a reference montmorillonite: binding to the internal and external surfaces. J. Radioanal. Nucl. Chem. 250(1), 55-62.
32. Kowal-Fouchard A., Drot R., Simoni E. and Ehrhardt J. J. (2004) Use of spectroscopic techniques for uranium(VI)/montmorillonite interaction modeling. Environ. Sci. Technol. 38(5), 1399-1407.
33. Krepelova A., Reich T., Sachs S., Drebert J. and Bernhard G. (2008) Structural characterization of U(VI) surface complexes on kaolinite in the presence of humic acid using EXAFS spectroscopy. J. Colloid Interface Sci. 319(1), 40-47.
34. Manceau A., Chateigner D. and Gates W. P. (1998) Polarized EXAFS, distance-valence least-squares modeling (DVLS), and quantitative texture analysis approaches to the structural refinement of Garfield nontronite. Phys. Chem. Miner. 25(5), 347-365.
35. McKinley J. P., Zachara J. M., Smith S. C. and Turner G. D. (1995) The influence of uranyl hydrolysis and multiple sitebinding reactions on adsorption of U(VI) to montmorillonite. Clays Clay Miner. 43(5), 586-598.
36. Nagra (2002), Project Opalinus Clay: Safety Report. Demonstration of disposal feasibility (Entsorgungsnachweis) for spent fuel, vitrified high-level waste and long-lived intermediate-level waste, Technical Report NTB 02-05, Wettingen, Switzerland.
37. Newville M., Livins P., Yacoby Y., Rehr J. J. and Stern E. A. (1993) Near-edge X-ray-absorption fine structure of Pb: a comparison of theory and experiment. Phys. Rev. B 47(21), 14126.
38. Newville M. (2001) EXAFS analysis using FEFF and FEFFIT. J. Synchrotron Radiat. 8, 96-100.
39. Pabalan R. T. and Turner D. R. (1997) Uranium(6+) sorption on montmorillonite: experimental and surface complexation modeling study. Aquat. Geochem. 2(3), 203-226.
40. Pauling L. (1929) The principles determining the structure of complex ionic crystals. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 51(4), 1010-1026.
41. Perrin and Dempsey (1974) Buffers for pH and Metal Ion Control. Chapmann and Hall, London.
42. Ravel B. and Newville M. (2005) ATHENA, ARTEMIS, HEPHAESTUS: data analysis for X-ray absorption spectroscopy using IFEFFIT. J. Synchrotron Radiat. 12, 537-541.
43. Rehr J. J., Mustre de Leon J., Zabinsky S. I. and Albers R. C. (1991) Theoretical x-ray absorption fine structure standards. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 113(14), 5135-5140.
44. Reich T., Moll H., Denecke M. A., Geipel G., Bernhard G. and Nitsche H. (1996) Characterization of hydrous uranyl silicate by EXAFS. Radiochim. Acta 74, 219-223.
45. Reich T., Moll H., Arnold T., Denecke M. A., Hennig C., Geipel G., Bernhard G., Nitsche H., Allen P. G., Bucher J. J., Edelstein N. M. and Shuh D. K. (1998) An EXAFS study of uranium(VI) sorption onto silica gel and ferrihydrite. J. Electron. Spectrosc. Relat. Phenom. 96(1-3), 237-243.
46. Rossberg A., Ulrich K.-U., Weiss S., Tsushima S., Hiemstra T. and Scheinost A. C. (2009) Identification of Uranyl Surface Complexes on Ferrihydrite: advanced EXAFS Data Analysis and CD-MUSIC Modeling. Environ. Sci. Technol. 43(5), 1400-1406.
47. Schlegel M. L., Manceau A., Charlet L., Chateigner D. and Hazemann J.-L. (2001) Sorption of metal ions on clay minerals. III. Nucleation and epitaxial growth of Zn phyllosilicate on the edges of hectorite. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 65(22), 4155-4170.
48. Schlegel M. L. and Descostes M. (2009) Uranium Uptake by Hectorite and Montmorillonite: A Solution Chemistry and Polarized EXAFS Study. Environ. Sci. Technol. 43(22), 8593-8598.
49. Soderholm L., Skanthakumar S., Gorman-Lewis D., Jensen M. P. and Nagy K. L. (2008) Characterizing solution and solid-phase amorphous uranyl silicates. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 72(1), 140-150.
50. Sposito G. (1984) The Surface Chemistry of Soils. Oxford University Press, New York.
51. Stern E. A. (1988) Theory of EXAFS. In X-ray Absorption: Principles, Applications, Techniques of EXAFS, SEXAFS and XANES (eds. D. C. Konigsberger and R. Prins). John Wiley & Sons.
52. Stern E. A. (1993) Number of relevant independent points in x-rayabsorption fine-structure spectra. Phys. Rev. B 48(13), 9825.
53. Sylwester E. R., Hudson E. A. and Allen P. G. (2000) The structure of uranium (VI) sorption complexes on silica, alumina, and montmorillonite. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 64(14), 2431-2438.
54. 2+ adsorption of a subsurface smectite. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 60(18), 3399-3414.
55. Van Olphen H. and Fripiat J. J. (1979) Data Handbook for Clay Materials and Other Non-metallic Minerals. Pergamon, New York.
56. Vespa M., Lanson M. and Manceau A. (2010) Natural attenuation of zinc pollution in smelter-affected soil. Environ. Sci. Technol. 44(20), 7814-7820.
57. Walter M., Arnold T., Geipel G., Scheinost A. and Bernhard G. (2005) An EXAFS and TRLFS investigation on uranium(VI) sorption to pristine and leached albite surfaces. J. Colloid Interface Sci. 282(2), 293-305.
58. Westall J., Zachary J. L. and Morel F. (1976) MINEQL, A Computer Program for the Calculation of Chemical Equilibrium Composition of Aqueous Systems. Technical Note 18, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
59. Zachara J. M. and McKinley J. P. (1993) Influence of hydrolysis on the sorption of metal cations by smectites: Importance of edge coordination reactions. Aquat. Sci. 55(4), 250-261.