Sorption of Testosterone to Soil Colloids of Different Size Fractions: Development of a Centrifugation and Mass Balance–Based Methodology
Publication: Journal of Environmental Engineering
Volume 142, Issue 11
Abstract
Soil colloids play critical roles during the fate and transport of micropollutants (e.g., pesticides and hormones) due to their high sorption affinity and mobility. In this study, the authors developed a centrifugation and mass balance–based methodology for studying sorption of testosterone to soil colloids of different size fractions (DSFs). The method should allow one to conduct the sorption tests with the whole soil first and then separate soil colloids of DSFs to evaluate their contributions to sorption. Results indicate the colloids diameter ranges (i.e., 900–600, 600–400, and 400–200 nm) can be controlled by a group of series centrifuge conditions (i.e., speed and time). The sorption affinity of soil colloids for testosterone is three times higher than that of the bulk soil and increases significantly with decreasing diameter size because of the difference of specific surface area and organic carbon content. The authors propose that the centrifuge condition of 2,844 relative centrifugal force is required to separate the dissolved () and particle-associate phases to ensure the error of sorption results less than 2%. One may use the methodology to develop a framework to study the sorption of micropollutants on soil colloids of DSFs with whole soils or sediments as testing material media.
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Acknowledgments
The authors would like to thank Drs. Mamo, Kranz, and Shapiro at the HAL of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) for providing soil samples, and Dr. Bartelt-Hunt in the Civil Engineering Department of UNL for providing Iowa black and technical training and support related to analysis. The authors would also like to thank our Civil Engineering Department secretary Arlys Blakey for ordering experiment materials. The research was made possible through support from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF Award #1067537).
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Journal of Environmental Engineering
Volume 142 • Issue 11 • November 2016
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Received: Oct 19, 2015
Accepted: Mar 14, 2016
Published online: Jun 6, 2016
Published in print: Nov 1, 2016
Discussion open until: Nov 6, 2016
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