Remediation of contaminated soils by enhanced nanoscale zero valent iron

2018 ◽  
Vol 163 ◽  
pp. 217-227 ◽  
Author(s):  
Danni Jiang ◽  
Guangming Zeng ◽  
Danlian Huang ◽  
Ming Chen ◽  
Chen Zhang ◽  
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2014 ◽  
Vol 955-959 ◽  
pp. 243-247 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jun Jie Du ◽  
Qi Xing Zhou

In this study, nanoscale zero-valent iron (nZVI) and nZVI/reduced graphene oxide (RGO-nZVI) nanocomposites were prepared, and the effect of nZVI, RGO-nZVI and graphene oxide (GO) on Indian marigold were examined by pot trials with contaminated soils amended with nanomaterials. The observed results show that 0.05% nZVI and 0.05% RGO-nZVI can wilt the Indian marigold, and they exhibit significant in situ mobility in fluvo-aquic soils. In this paper, the feasibility of improving the phytoremediation efficiency of contaminated soils by amending with nanomaterials is also discussed.


2013 ◽  
Vol 790 ◽  
pp. 73-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuan Yuan Gao ◽  
Qi Xing Zhou

E-waste contamination is of major environmental concern on a world scale, with the rapid development of electric industry. The recycling and disposal methods of e-wastes remain rudimentary, and pose a serious environmental threat and have adverse influences on human health, because toxic pollutants such as polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), and heavy metals are released into the environment during crude recycling. nanophytoremediation is a combined technology between nanotechnology and phytotechnology for remediation of contaminated environments. This work was aimed to investigate the tolerance and accumulation characteristics of e-waste pollution, as well as the effect of nanoscale zero valent iron (nZVI) on their phytoremediation capacity. Results showed that nZVI could facilitate the growth of plants both under clean soil and the high pollution, with increased by 30.3% and 53.5% respectively. This may be attributed to the improvement of soil quality and adjustment of soil pH by nZVI. Especially, all the nZVI adding treatments had significantly higher PCBs accumulation efficiency compared with that without addition of nZVI, thus indicating nZVI-phytroremediation would be a very promising method in the future.


Author(s):  
Alazne Galdames ◽  
Leire Ruiz-Rubio ◽  
Maider Orueta ◽  
Miguel Sánchez-Arzalluz ◽  
José Luis Vilas-Vilela

Zero-valent iron has been reported as a successful remediation agent for environmental issues, being extensively used in soil and groundwater remediation. The use of zero-valent nanoparticles have been arisen as a highly effective method due to the high specific surface area of zero-valent nanoparticles. Then, the development of nanosized materials in general, and the improvement of the properties of the nano-iron in particular, has facilitated their application in remediation technologies. As the result, highly efficient and versatile nanomaterials have been obtained. Among the possible nanoparticle systems, the reactivity and availability of zero-valent iron nanoparticles (NZVI) have achieved very interesting and promising results make them particularly attractive for the remediation of subsurface contaminants. In fact, a large number of laboratory and pilot studies have reported the high effectiveness of these NZVI-based technologies for the remediation of groundwater and contaminated soils. Although the results are often based on a limited contaminant target, there is a large gap between the amount of contaminants tested with NZVI at the laboratory level and those remediated at the pilot and field level. In this review, the main zero-valent iron nanoparticles and their remediation capacity are summarized, in addition to the pilot and land scale studies reported until date for each kind of nanomaterials.


2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (8) ◽  
pp. 2223-2238 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arvid Masud ◽  
Nita G. Chavez Soria ◽  
Diana S. Aga ◽  
Nirupam Aich

Reduced graphene oxide-nanoscale zero valent iron (rGO–nZVI) nanohybrid, with tunable adsorption sites of rGO and unique catalytic redox activity of nZVI, perform enhanced removal of diverse PPCPs from water.


Author(s):  
Haiyan Song ◽  
Wei Liu ◽  
Fansheng Meng ◽  
Qi Yang ◽  
Niandong Guo

Nanoscale zero-valent iron (nZVI) has attracted considerable attention for its potential to sequestrate and immobilize heavy metals such as Cr(VI) from an aqueous solution. However, nZVI can be easily oxidized and agglomerate, which strongly affects the removal efficiency. In this study, graphene-based nZVI (nZVI/rGO) composites coupled with ultrasonic (US) pretreatment were studied to solve the above problems and conduct the experiments of Cr(VI) removal from an aqueous solution. SEM-EDS, BET, XRD, and XPS were performed to analyze the morphology and structures of the composites. The findings showed that the removal efficiency of Cr(VI) in 30 min was increased from 45.84% on nZVI to 78.01% on nZVI/rGO and the removal process performed coupled with ultrasonic pretreatment could greatly shorten the reaction time to 15 min. Influencing factors such as the initial pH, temperature, initial Cr(VI) concentration, and co-existing anions were studied. The results showed that the initial pH was a principal factor. The presence of HPO42−, NO3−, and Cl− had a strong inhibitory effect on this process, while the presence of SO42− promoted the reactivity of nZVI/rGO. Combined with the above results, the process of Cr(VI) removal in US-nZVI/rGO system consisted of two phases: (1) The initial stage is dominated by solution reaction. Cr(VI) was reduced in the solution by Fe2+ caused by ultrasonic cavitation. (2) In the following processes, adsorption, reduction, and coprecipitation coexisted. The addition of rGO enhanced electron transportability weakened the influence of passivation layers and improved the dispersion of nZVI particles. Ultrasonic cavitation caused pores and corrosion at the passivation layers and fresh Fe0 core was exposed, which improved the reactivity of the composites.


RSC Advances ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 452-461
Author(s):  
Yi Han ◽  
Xian Zhou ◽  
Li Lei ◽  
Huiqun Sun ◽  
Zhiyuan Niu ◽  
...  

In order to improve the utilization of nanoscale zero-valent iron (nZVI) in activating persulfate (PS), a composite material of nZVI/CSW with nZVI supported on calcium sulfate whiskers (CSWs) was synthesized in this study.


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