Contaminants sorbents

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Suction hoses, pumps, vacuum trucks, and certain skimmers and sorbents, both natural and synthetic, are generally effective in removing excess oil from the surface, especially from ditches or low areas. The use of sorbents can complicate cleanup operations, however, as contaminated sorbents must be disposed of appropriately. Sorbents are best used to remove the final traces of oil from a water surface. Any removal of surface or vegetation also entails replanting and fertilization. 

DISPOSAL AND STORAGE METHODS cover contaminated material with a sorbent material such as peat, sawdust, straw, etc. place all contaminated sorbent and soil in impervious containers subject to ultimate disposal by controlled incineration materials may also be buried in a chemical waste landfill store in a cool, dry, well-ventilated location separate from strong oxidizers, alkalies, acids and nitrates. 

Heavy-duty plastic bags and labels are used to collect the contaminated sorbent particles. 

Others would include the addition of materials aimed at increa sing the bioavailabiUty of the contaminant to the degrading organisms. The most studied compounds are surfactants, but cations have been reported to increase the bioavailabiUty of some organic compounds, and sorbents and clays are also considered. The dispersion of spilled oil on water by the appHcation of dispersants is perhaps the major commercial use of this idea. 

Adsorption and Desorption Adsorbents may be used to recover solutes from supercritical fluid extracts for example, activated carbon and polymeric sorbents may be used to recover caffeine from CO9. This approach may be used to improve the selectivity of a supercritical fluid extraction process. SCF extraction may be used to regenerate adsorbents such as activated carbon and to remove contaminants from soil. In many cases the chemisorption is sufficiently strong that regeneration with CO9 is limited, even if the pure solute is quite soluble in CO9. In some cases a cosolvent can be added to the SCF to displace the sorbate from the sorbent. Another approach is to use water at elevated or even supercritical temperatures to facilitate desorption. Many of the principles for desorption are also relevant to extraction of substances from other substrates such as natural products and polymers. 

Theoretical and applied aspects of microwave heating, as well as the advantages of its application are discussed for the individual analytical processes and also for the sample preparation procedures. Special attention is paid to the various preconcentration techniques, in part, sorption and extraction. Improvement of microwave-assisted solution preconcentration is shown on the example of separation of noble metals from matrix components by complexing sorbents. Advantages of microwave-assisted extraction and principles of choice of appropriate solvent are considered for the extraction of organic contaminants from solutions and solid samples by alcohols and room-temperature ionic liquids (RTILs). 

Breakthrough A condition that exists when the backup section of a sorbent tube is found to contain 20-25 percent of the total amount of contaminant captured in the front section. 

Passive sampling Sampling that depends on the diffusion of the contaminant into a solid sorbent. 

During the separation itself some trouble can occur concerning the back pressure. An increasing back pressure indicates contamination of the column and thus should be monitored. If this happens or if a visible contamination of the sorbent is noticed, a regeneration of the column is necessary. However, if the back pressure rises very rapidly the column may be clogged by denatured proteins. As a first attempt, the frits should be replaced by new ones, trying the top adapter first. 

These sorbents may be used either for selective fixation of biological molecules, which must be isolated and purified, or for selective retention of contaminants. Selective fixation of biopolymers may be easily attained by regulation of eluent polarity on the basis of reversed-phase chromatography methods. Effective isolation of different nucleic acids (RNA, DNA-plasmid) was carried out [115, 116]. Adsorption of nucleosides, nucleotides, tRN A and DNA was investigated. It was shown that nucleosides and nucleotides were reversibly adsorbed on... 

PT catalysts are often difficult to separate from the product, while it is also desirable that the catalyst should be reusable or recyclable. Distillation and extraction are the most common separation processes. The main disadvantage of lipophilic quats is their tendency to remain in the organic phase and consequently contaminate the product. Therefore, extraction in water often is not satisfactory. Furthermore, products in the fine chemicals industry often have high boiling points and/or are heat sensitive, which makes separation of the catalyst by distillation impossible. Often the only means to remove the catalyst in these cases is to adsorb it using a high surface area sorbent such as silica, Florisil or active carbon (Sasson, 1997). After filtration, the catalyst can then be recovered by elution. 

Table 3.42 lists the main factors influencing optimisation of SPE. When considering a specific extraction problem, many different aspects influence column selection, including nature of the analytes and of the sample matrix degree of purity required nature of major contaminants in the sample and final analytical procedure. Reversed-phase sorbents have nonpolar functional groups and preferentially retain nonpolar compounds. Thus, for a nonpolar analyte, to remove polar interferences using a polar sorbent phase, the sample... 

A permeable reactive barrier (PRB) is defined as an in situ method for remediating contaminated groundwater that combines a passive chemical or biological treatment zone with subsurface fluid flow management. Treatment media may include zero-valent iron, chelators, sorbents, and microbes to address a wide variety of groundwater contaminants, such as chlorinated solvents, other organics,... 

Manganese (IV) oxide enjoys numerous applications in modem technologies. The most widely known areas of its usage are sorption processes one could recall that co-precipitation of contaminating cations with manganese oxide is still employed as part of the in-tank precipitation in processes of treatment of supernatant wastes at high concentration. Furthermore, co-precipitation data are usually used as benchmark results in studies of novel sorbents for strontium [4],... 

Yuan G (2004) Natural and modified nanomaterials as sorbents of environmental contaminants. J Environ Sci Health, Part A Toxic/Hazardous Subst Environ Eng 39 2661-2670... 

In addition to SOM, clay minerals are another important component that may influence contaminant-soil interactions. Expandable 2 1 type clays are usually more reactive than other clay minerals. Park et al. (2003) used a K-saturated montmorillonite as a sorbent to evaluate the availability of sorbed atrazine to three atrazine-degrading bacteria. K-saturated montmorillonite has a high atrazine sorption capacity with a Freundlich sorption... 

Another important factor influencing the bioavailability of organic contaminants is the contact time between the contaminant and soil/sorbent, often referred to as aging. Aging often increases the sorption of organic chemicals by allowing more time for the chemicals to partition deeper into... 

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