Detoxification of heavy metals
Detoxification of heavy metals
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DOI:
10.1007/978-3-642-21408-0
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发表时间:
2011
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I. Sherameti;A. Varma
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作者:
I. Sherameti;A. Varma
Zeolites are largely used in soil remediation technologies by exploiting their well-known high cation-exchange capacity. Besides this property, zeolites possess large pores and internal cavities. Such pores can be used to trap scarcely soluble HM precipitates, thus chemically reducing their solubility and physically isolating the contaminant at the microscopic level.Zeolite synthesis can be easily promoted in soil at low temperatures by adding Si- and Al-containing materials in alkaline conditions. As a consequence of this process, HM are stabilized as micro- or nanoclusters of oxides and hydroxides trapped inside the structure of crystalline zeolites or physically and chemically immobilized by amorphous “geopolymers.”In this process, waste materials such as coal fly ash, blast furnace slag, building wastes, glass, and aluminum refuses can be profitably employed, together with cheap alkali reagents (e.g., NaOH, KOH, and lime).Promoting zeolite synthesis in soil can be a promising methodology to effectively stabilize HM in polluted sites, especially in combination with other physicochemical or biological remediation processes.