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Hai-Hua Li ¹, Rui-Jing Meng ², Qiang Huang ¹, Lin Qiu ²

Affiliations
1 Key Laboratory of Northwest Water Resources and Environment Ecology of MOE at Xi’an University of Technology, Xi’an 710048, CN
2 Municipal Engineering, North China University of Water Resources and Electric Power, Zhengzhou 450011, CN

Abstract

The present study deals with sediment sorption of arsenic onto sediments from the middle Yellow River and major affecting factors (such as temperate, pH, particle size and sediment dose have been studied by isothermal sorption and single factor experiments. The results showed that sorption equilibrium time of each dose and particle size sediment was 5-10 min. expect 1kg/m³. When the sediment dose was 1kg/m³, the sorption equilibrium time was about 180min. The retention rate of As(III) increased with respect to sediment dose while the retention quality of per sediment decreased. As the sediment concentrations are the same, the smaller the particle size, the more the retention quality. The order for sorption As(III) was fine sediment>medium sediment>coarse sediment. When pH>7, the percentage of As (III) removal was higher compared to pH 7. A general increase was there in sorption with respect to pH above 7.0 for both the fractions of the sediment. It is evident that the pH for minimum uptake of As (III) is 7.0, and for maximum uptake is 9.0. At the same time, temperate as the main factor for sorption was also studied. The temperate experiments showed that the temperature is of significance to sorption. When temperatures between 10-15°C, the higher the temperature, the lower the removal rate. When temperatures between 15-20°C, the higher the temperature, the bigger the removal rate. After temperature greater than 20°C, temperature change effects on arsenic sorption rates do not remain obvious.

Keywords

Arsenic (III), River Sediment, Sorption, pH, Temperature.

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