Ex-situ soil washing technology offers advantages such as speed and efficiency of remediation and range of application and has been developed to conform with legal requirements and best management practices in USA and...Ex-situ soil washing technology offers advantages such as speed and efficiency of remediation and range of application and has been developed to conform with legal requirements and best management practices in USA and some European countries. In this study, nano-sulfonated graphene （SGE） was used as a washing agent to evaluate different processing （washing） parameters for the ectopic leaching removal of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons （PAHs） from a coking plant soil. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy （XPS） and fourier transform infrared spectroscopy （FTIR） were used to analyze the characteristics of the SGE tested. The results showed that SGE had a strong adsorption capacity for PAHs through the role of π-π, H-π, and anion-π interactions. The washing parameters, an SGE concentration of 2000 mg L-1, a liquid/soil （L/S） ratio of 10：1, and 4 cycles of successive washing, were set to arrive to the optimum condition for achieving more than 80% of PAH removal. Under the optimum condition, the PAH removal rate decreased with increasing ring numbers. After one washing cycle at SGE concentration of 2000 mg L-1 and L/S ratio of 10：1, the PAH removal rate of the SCE tested was much higher than that of Tween 80 （TW80） or methyl-β-cyclodextrin （MCD） （P 〈 0.01）. Therefore, SGE is a promising material for the nanoremediation of PAH-contaminated soils.展开更多
基金supported by the Distinguished Young Scholar Programe of Jiangsu Province of China (No. BK20150049)the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 41401565)
文摘Ex-situ soil washing technology offers advantages such as speed and efficiency of remediation and range of application and has been developed to conform with legal requirements and best management practices in USA and some European countries. In this study, nano-sulfonated graphene （SGE） was used as a washing agent to evaluate different processing （washing） parameters for the ectopic leaching removal of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons （PAHs） from a coking plant soil. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy （XPS） and fourier transform infrared spectroscopy （FTIR） were used to analyze the characteristics of the SGE tested. The results showed that SGE had a strong adsorption capacity for PAHs through the role of π-π, H-π, and anion-π interactions. The washing parameters, an SGE concentration of 2000 mg L-1, a liquid/soil （L/S） ratio of 10：1, and 4 cycles of successive washing, were set to arrive to the optimum condition for achieving more than 80% of PAH removal. Under the optimum condition, the PAH removal rate decreased with increasing ring numbers. After one washing cycle at SGE concentration of 2000 mg L-1 and L/S ratio of 10：1, the PAH removal rate of the SCE tested was much higher than that of Tween 80 （TW80） or methyl-β-cyclodextrin （MCD） （P 〈 0.01）. Therefore, SGE is a promising material for the nanoremediation of PAH-contaminated soils.
