Organic-surface interactions, oxide minerals

Tomb cz, E. (2003). Effect of environmental relevant organic complexants on the surface charge and the interaction of clay mineral and metal oxide particles. In Role of Interfaces in Environmental Protection, Barany, S., ed., Kluwer, Dordrecht, 397-424. 

Mineral solubility and precipitation were discussed in Chapter 2 as techniques for predicting the release of ionic constituents to water or soil solutions or the removal of ionic constituents from water or soil solutions. In this chapter, a second source/sink for ionic constituents (e.g., contaminants or nutrients) is presented and the mechanisms controlling this sink are referred to as adsorption or sorption. Both terms denote the removal of solution chemical species from water by mineral surfaces (e.g., organics, metal oxides, and clays) and the distinction between the two terms is based on the mechanism(s) responsible for this removal. In adsorption, a chemical species may be adsorbed by a surface either electrostatically or chemically (electron sharing), whereas in sorption, a chemical species may accumulate on a minerars surface either through adsorption, hydrophobic interactions, and/or precipitation. 

The multireaction approach, often referred to as the multisite model, acknowledges that the soil solid phase is made up of different constituents (clay minerals, organic matter, iron, and aluminum oxides). Moreover, a heavy metal species is likely to react with various constituents (sites) via different mechanisms (Amacher et al 1988). As reported by Hinz et al. (1994), heavy metals are assumed to react at different rates with different sites on matrix surfaces. Therefore, a multireaction kinetic approach is used to describe heavy metal retention kinetics in soils. The multireaction model used here considers several interactions of one reactive solute species with soil matrix surfaces. Specifically, the model assumes that a fraction of the total sites reacts rapidly or instantaneously with solute in the soil solution, whereas the remaining fraction reacts more slowly with the solute. As shown in Figure 12.1, the model includes reversible as well as irreversible retention reactions that occur concurrently and consecutively. We assumed that a heavy metal species is present in the soil solution phase, C (mg/L), and in several phases representing metal species retained by the soil matrix designated as Se, S, S2, Ss, and Sirr (mg/kg of soil). We further considered that the sorbed phases Se, S, and S2 are in direct contact with the solution phase (C) and are governed by concurrent reactions. Specifically, C is assumed to react rapidly and reversibly with the equilibrium phase (Se) such that... 

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