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Sci Total Environ. 2018 Mar 15;618:1619-1627. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.10.002. Epub 2017 Oct 28.

Effect of field site hydrogeochemical conditions on the corrosion of milled zerovalent iron particles and their dechlorination efficiency.

The Science of the total environment

Milica Velimirovic, Melanie Auffan, Luca Carniato, Vesna Micić Batka, Doris Schmid, Stephan Wagner, Daniel Borschneck, Olivier Proux, Frank von der Kammer, Thilo Hofmann

Affiliations

  1. University of Vienna, Department of Environmental Geosciences and Environmental Science Research Network, Althanstraße 14, 1090 Vienna, Austria.
  2. Aix-Marseille Univ, CNRS, IRD, Coll de France, CEREGE, Aix en Provence, France.
  3. Department of Water Resources, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands.
  4. University of Vienna, Department of Environmental Geosciences and Environmental Science Research Network, Althanstraße 14, 1090 Vienna, Austria; Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Leipzig, Germany.
  5. Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers de Grenoble (OSUG), UMS 832 CNRS, Univ. Grenoble Alpes, F-38041 Grenoble, France.
  6. University of Vienna, Department of Environmental Geosciences and Environmental Science Research Network, Althanstraße 14, 1090 Vienna, Austria. Electronic address: [email protected].

PMID: 29111242 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.10.002

Abstract

Milled zerovalent iron (milled ZVI) particles have been recognized as a promising agent for groundwater remediation because of (1) their high reactivity with chlorinated aliphatic hydrocarbons, organochlorine pesticides, organic dyes, and a number of inorganic contaminants, and (2) a possible greater persistance than the more extensively investigated nanoscale zerovalent iron. We have used laboratory-scale batch degradation experiments to investigate the effect that hydrogeochemical conditions have on the corrosion of milled ZVI and on its ability to degrade trichloroethene (TCE). The observed pseudo first-order degradation rate constants indicated that the degradation of TCE by milled ZVI is affected by groundwater chemistry. The apparent corrosion rates of milled ZVI particles were of the same order of magnitude for hydrogeochemical conditions representative for two contaminated field sites (133-140mmolkg

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Keywords: Apparent corrosion rate; Degradation; Groundwater remediation; Hydrogeochemistry; Milled zero valent iron; Structural changes

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