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Modelling metal–humic substances–surface systems: reasons for success, failure and possible routes for peace of mind

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2018

P. E. Reiller
P. E. Reiller*
Affiliation:
Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique et aux énergies alternatives, CE Saclay, CEA, DEN, DANS, DPC, SEARS, Laboratoire de développement Analytique Nucléaire Isotopique et Elémentaire, Bâtiment 391, PC 33, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette CEDEX, France
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*E-mail: pascal.reiller@cea.fr
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Abstract

Iron oxides and oxyhydroxides are commonly of considerable importance in the sorption of ions onto rocks, soils and sediments. They can be the controlling sorptive phases even if they are present in relatively small quantities. In common with other oxides and clay minerals, the sorptionpH-edge of metals is directly linked to their hydrolysis: the higher the residual charge on the metal ion, the lower the pH-edge. Modelling of this process has been successfully carried out using different microscopic or macroscopic definitions of the interface (e.g. surface complexation orion exchange models that may or may not include mineralogical descriptions). The influence of organic material on the sorption of many metals is of significant. This organic material includes simple organic molecules and more complex exopolymeric substances (e.g. humic substances) producedby the decay of natural organic matter. Sorption of this organic material to mineral surfaces has been the subject of a large body of work. The various types of organic substances do not share the same affinities for mineral surfaces in general, and for iron oxides and oxyhydroxides in particular.In those cases in which successful models of the component binary systems (i.e. metal–surface, metal–organic, organic–surface) have been developed, the formation of mixed surface complexes, the evolution of the surface itself, the addition order in laboratory systems, andthe evolution of natural organic matter fractions during sorption, have often precluded a satisfactory description of metal–surface–organic ternary systems over a sufficiently wide range of parameter values (i.e. pH, ionic strength, concentration of humic substances). This manuscriptdescribes the reasons for some successes and failures in the modelling of the ternary systems. Promising recent advances and possible methods of providing more complete descriptions of these intricate systems are also discussed.

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Sorption modellingmetal ionsradionuclideshumic acidshumic substances
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Research Article
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Mineralogical Magazine , Volume 76 , Issue 7 , December 2012 , pp. 2643 - 2658
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Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 2016

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