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Leachability and desorption of PCBs from soil and their dependency on pH and dissolved organic matter
Umeå University, Faculty of Science and Technology, Department of Chemistry.
Umeå University, Faculty of Science and Technology, Department of Chemistry.
Umeå University, Faculty of Science and Technology, Department of Chemistry.
Umeå University, Faculty of Science and Technology, Department of Chemistry.
2014 (English)In: Science of the Total Environment, ISSN 0048-9697, E-ISSN 1879-1026, Vol. 499, p. 220-227Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

pH affects both soil–water partitioning coefficient (Kd) of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and dissolved organic matter (DOM), thereby influencing PCBs' leachability from contaminated soils. To explore these incompletely understood interactions, the leachability of 11 selected PCBs in a naturally aged soil was investigated in pH static leaching tests spanning a wide pH range (2 to 9). The Kd was calculated for each of the PCBs, based on their observed concentrations in the soil and leachates obtained from each test. The concentration and composition of DOM in each leachate were also determined, the latter using FTIR spectroscopy. Correlations between the DOM's FTIR spectra and Kd values were investigated by orthogonal projections to latent structures. The log Kd-values varied among the PCB congeners and were most variable at low pH, but the values for all studied congeners decreased with increasing pH, by up to 3 log units (for PCB 187). In the pH 5–7 interval, an abrupt decrease in log Kd values with increases in pH was observed, although the total organic carbon content remained relatively stable. The FTIR data indicate that fulvic and humic acids in DOM partially deprotonate as the pH rises from 5 to 7.

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2014. Vol. 499, p. 220-227
Keywords [en]
contaminated soil, PCBs, leaching, distribution coefficient, DOM, FTIR
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Environmental Sciences
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URN: urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-92849DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2014.08.031ISI: 000343613200023PubMedID: 25192928Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-84906928063OAI: oai:DiVA.org:umu-92849DiVA, id: diva2:744121
Available from: 2014-09-06 Created: 2014-09-06 Last updated: 2023-03-24Bibliographically approved

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