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dc.contributor.authorAmoah-Antwi, C.
dc.contributor.authorKwiatkowska-Malina, J.
dc.contributor.authorSzara, E.
dc.contributor.authorThornton, S.
dc.contributor.authorFenton, Owen
dc.contributor.authorMalina, G.
dc.date.accessioned2021-07-21T15:30:32Z
dc.date.available2021-07-21T15:30:32Z
dc.date.issued2020-10-03
dc.identifier.citationAmoah-Antwi, C., Kwiatkowska-Malina, J., Szara, E., Thornton, S., Fenton, O., Malina, G. Efficacy of Woodchip Biochar and Brown Coal Waste as Stable Sorbents for Abatement of Bioavailable Cadmium, Lead and Zinc in Soil. Water Air Soil Pollut., 2020 231, 515. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11270-020-04885-4en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11019/2497
dc.descriptionpeer-revieweden_US
dc.description.abstractOrganic sorbents alter physicochemical soil properties and mitigate heavy metal (HM) bioavailability. However, some sorbents are labile and, therefore, introduce the risk of HM release into soil after mineralisation. Before field application, new stable organic sorbents such as woodchip biochar (BIO) and brown coal waste (BCW) need to be tested and compared with standard organic amendments like farmyard manure (FYM). An incubated pot experiment was conducted to investigate the efficacy of FYM, BIO and BCW (added to soil in pots at 5 and 10% w/w) to alter soil physicochemical properties and mitigate bioavailability of Cd, Pb and Zn spiked in treatments at different doses (in mg kg−1 ); 0 (not spiked), 1 (1 Cd, 70 Pb, 100 Zn) and 2 (3 Cd, 500 Pb, 700 Zn), and incubated for 9 weeks. At the end of the experiment, the EDTAextractable HM fractions, pH, cation exchange capacity (CEC) and specific surface area (SSA, to check trends) were determined in all treated soils. Results showed that FYM, BCW and BIO generally improved all soil properties (except reduced pH from BCW and apparent SSA reduction from FYM) and accounted for respective maximum abatements of Cd (50.2, 69.9 and 25.5%), Pb (34.2, 64.3 and 17.4%) and Zn (14.9, 17.7 and 11.8%) bioavailability in soil. FYM and BCW were more effective at 10% w/w especially in the low contaminated soil, whereas the highest efficacy for BIO was at 5% w/w and in the high contaminated soil. The efficacies of sorption by the organic sorbents varied for different HMs and were in the orders: BCW > FYM > BIO for Cd, FYM > BCW > BIO for Pb and BIO > BCW > FYM for Zn. Soil pH and CEC were strongly correlated with HM bioavailability in all treatments and implied that immobilisation of HMs occurred via complex formation, ion exchange and pH-dependent specific adsorption. All three sorbents were beneficial as soil amendments, and in terms of HM mitigation, BCW had the highest efficacy, followed by FYM and then BIO. Considering the documented high soil stability of BCW and BIO, these results are promising for further trialling at field scale.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipH2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherSpringer Science and Business Media LLCen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesWater Air Soil Pollution;231
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/*
dc.subjectImmobilisationen_US
dc.subjectBioavailabilityen_US
dc.subjectSorptionen_US
dc.subjectComplex formationen_US
dc.subjectIon exchangeen_US
dc.subjectPot experimenten_US
dc.titleEfficacy of Woodchip Biochar and Brown Coal Waste as Stable Sorbents for Abatement of Bioavailable Cadmium, Lead and Zinc in Soilen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1007/s11270-020-04885-4
dc.contributor.sponsorEuropean Unionen_US
dc.contributor.sponsorGrantNumber675120en_US
dc.source.volume231
dc.source.issue10
refterms.dateFOA2021-07-21T15:30:32Z
dc.source.journaltitleWater, Air, & Soil Pollution


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