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New Jersey Institute of Technology

1989

Soil absorption and adsorption

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Adsorption And Desorption Of Chromium On Clayey Soils, Ker-Shu Tan May 1989

Adsorption And Desorption Of Chromium On Clayey Soils, Ker-Shu Tan

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Chromium residue waste was produced during sixties in the chromium production process. It was used as construction fill. Problems associated with chromium waste sites include structure distress and surface and groundwater contamination.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the adsorption and desorption of chromium on soil. In order to achieve this purpose, experiments were conducted to study the effect of pH, type of chromium compound, and type of soil on adsorption and desorption.

Experiments were performed on kaolinite, bentonite and sand. In our study, it was found that sand had almost no adsorption for chromium. Kaolinite had less …