Impacts of Nanobubbles in Pore Water on Heavy Metal Pollutant Release from Contaminated Soil Columns
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Preparation of Heavy Metal Contaminated Soil
2.2. Generation and Characterization of NBs
2.3. Column Setup and Characterization under a Bubble Water Flow
2.4. Evaluation of the Metal Release from the Spiked Soil under a Bubble Water Flow
2.5. Modeling Analysis of the Metal Leaching Kinetics
3. Results and Discussions
3.1. Soil Characterization
3.2. Bubble Characterization
3.3. Effects of Nanobubble Water on Soil Structures and Soil Chemistries
3.3.1. Soil Fluidization
3.3.2. Water Chemistries of the Soil Elute
3.4. Release of Soil Heavy Metals under the Soil Washing by Different NB Water
3.5. Leaching Kinetics Modeling Analysis
4. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Zhang, Y.; Song, Z.; Sugita, K.; Xue, S.; Zhang, W. Impacts of Nanobubbles in Pore Water on Heavy Metal Pollutant Release from Contaminated Soil Columns. Nanomaterials 2023, 13, 1671. https://doi.org/10.3390/nano13101671
Zhang Y, Song Z, Sugita K, Xue S, Zhang W. Impacts of Nanobubbles in Pore Water on Heavy Metal Pollutant Release from Contaminated Soil Columns. Nanomaterials. 2023; 13(10):1671. https://doi.org/10.3390/nano13101671
Chicago/Turabian StyleZhang, Yihan, Zimu Song, Kosuke Sugita, Shan Xue, and Wen Zhang. 2023. "Impacts of Nanobubbles in Pore Water on Heavy Metal Pollutant Release from Contaminated Soil Columns" Nanomaterials 13, no. 10: 1671. https://doi.org/10.3390/nano13101671