The present study deals with the development of standardized laboratory methods to predict depletion of biocides more accurately under service condition. Laboratory test was conducted with EN 252 standard and non-standard pine as well as spruce specimens to determine leaching of chromium and copper from stakes pressure impregnated with commercial copperand chromium-containing preservative. Two ...

Improper use of urea may cause environmental pollution through NH3 volatilization and NO3 (-) leaching from urea. Clinoptilolite zeolite and compost could be used to control N loss from urea by controlling NH4 (+) and NO3 (-) release from urea. Soil incubation and leaching experiments were conducted to determine the effects of clinoptilolite zeolite and compost on controlling NH4 (+) and NO3 (-...

This paper discusses the results of Cd, Pb and Ni immobilization using cement. Soil contamination levels were in the range 500 mg/kg to 5,000 rug/kg. and cement ratios were in the range 3% to 18%. The process was highly effective in minimizing the leaching of tested heavy metals. The measured leaching reduction results were as follows: 76% to more than 96% for Pb; 30% to more than 99% for Cd; a...

To evaluate the potential environmental and health implications of leaching of wood preservatives in service under different conditions, there is a need for a predictive model that provides estimates of the rate and extent of leaching over a wide range of exposure conditions. In this paper, we test the hypothesis that preservative component emissions can be modeled on the basis of three easily ...

In present investigation the biological leaching of aluminum by isolated fungi from red mud, the main waste product of the alkaline extraction of Al from bauxite was studied. Biological leaching experiments were carried out using indigenous, date and orange specimen fungi, Aspergillus Niger, Penicillium simplicissimum notatum. Savored Dextrose chloramphenicol Agar (SDA) was used as medium for t...

We quantified leaching and mass fractions of trace elements in melted acidified ice core samples measured by Inductively Coupled Plasma Sector Field Mass Spectrometry (ICP-SFMS). This assessment was conducted using nine ice core sections retrieved from various high-altitude drilling sites in South America, Africa, Asia and Europe. Twenty trace elements (Ag, Al, As, Bi, Cd, Co, Cr, Cu, Fe, Mn, M...

The influence of microwave heating on the leaching kinetics of chalcopyrite and sphalerite has been investigated. Chalcopyrite is inert to many leaching agents, especially ferric ion media. This mineral is considered to be one of the largest sources of copper, in terms of the scale of availability, and copper is usually extracted by pyrometallurgical processes. However, there has recently been ...

The leaching kinetics of smithsonite ore in acetic acid solutions, an environmental friend, and natural reagent was investigated. The influence of parameters such as reaction temperature, particle size, solid-liquid ratio and acid concentration was studied in order to reveal the leaching kinetics of smithsonite ore. In this study, experimental and statistical methods were carried out in order t...

Aiming at the industrial scale development of a Scandium (Sc)-selective leaching process 14 of Bauxite Residue (BR), a sufficiently numerous set of process design aspects has been 15 investigated, by appropriate exploitation of available experimental data. The interpretation of 16 experimental data for Sc leaching yield, with sulfuric acid as the leaching solvent, has shown 17 significant impac...

Column experiments were conducted to investigate U(VI) desorption and sorption kinetics in a sand-textured, U(VI)-contaminated (22.7 micromol kg(-1)) capillary fringe sediment from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Hanford site. Saturated column experiments were performed under mildly alkaline conditions representative of the Hanford site where uranyl-carbonate and calcium-uranyl-carbonate co...