Experiment simulation study on removal mechanism o

Authors: Yan Ma Zhiping Li

Publish Date: 2014/05/30

Volume: 72, Issue: 11, Pages: 4511-4520

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Abstract

River filtration system is a natural purification process to remove the pollutants in river water and make use of surface water In this study a series of experiments were set up with soil column test and static adsorption experiments to simulate the environmental behaviors of BTEX in the river filtration system It was found that the environmental behaviors of BTEX in the river filtration system included adsorption and microbial degradation Among the four components of BTEX used in the experiments the removal rate of xylene was the highest ethylbenzene was second toluene was third and that of benzene was the lowest The stability of the structure of benzene was the major contributor for the relatively lower degradation efficiency and the low removal rate of toluene was due to the impact of adsorption on degradation By comparison of the results of soil column test and static adsorption experiments it was found that the soil–water partition coefficient K d of each component of BTEX was higher the degradation ratio was lower Compared with the previous study the results of this experiment showed that when the initial concentration of the each component of BTEX reached 80 mg/L the mixed pollution of BTEX could be removed by the river filtration system efficiently and the average removal rate could be over 65  As a natural purification river filtration system could efficiently remove the BTEX mixed pollution in a quite high concentration and protect the ground water from being contaminated However its purification efficiency was limited in a certain time range and concentration It was shown in the later stage of the leaching experiment that the exudation concentration of BTEX increased at the same time both the concentrations of the two electron acceptors increased to about the initial concentration and kept stable state until the end of the experiment which revealed that due to accumulation of the concentration of BTEX in the soil column the microbial activity was inhibited and then the denitrification and sulfate reduction terminated When the adsorption saturation was achieved and microbial activity was inhibited BTEX contamination would penetrate through the unsaturated zone and threaten the security of the ground water

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