Sorption of Aqueous Organics by Aquifer Material: Correlation of Batch Sorption Parameters with Octanol-Water Partition Coefficient
Publication: Journal of Environmental Engineering
Volume 142, Issue 8
Abstract
A study of sorption of aqueous organics by aquifer materials was undertaken with an objective to correlate sorption parameters with the octanol-water partition coefficient () of aqueous samples. In the first phase, synthetic samples were equilibrated with the aquifer material collected from the river bank filtration (RBF) site located on the bank of the river Alaknanda at Srinagar, Uttarakhand, India. In the second phase, water from the river Hindon at Barnawa, Uttar Pradesh, India, was stirred with the Srinagar aquifer material, and a sample of water from the Elbe River was mixed with the aquifer material from the RBF site in Torgau, Germany. The fraction of organic carbon content () in the aquifer material from Srinagar and Torgau was 0.018 and , respectively. The hydrophilic and hydrophobic nature of the synthetic samples and the water samples from the rivers Hindon and Elbe were determined by measuring and specific ultraviolet absorbance (SUVA). Empirical correlations between log and (1) adsorption capacity (), (2) soil-water partition coefficient (), and (3) organic carbon-water partition coefficient () for hydrophilic and hydrophobic samples have been developed. The values predicted from the model and experimental observations were statistically analyzed by the regression analysis model (RAM) and analysis of variance (ANOVA). The analysis did not indicate a significant difference between the experimental data and computed data of sorption parameters from log . The similarity between log from (1) (slope of the sorption isotherm) and (2) log was within a 95% confidence limit. The Freundlich isotherm constant () has been found to increase with an increase in , whereas no such correlation was noted for the Langmuir isotherm constant (). A correlation between the sorption parameters (, , and ) and SUVA was not observed.
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Acknowledgments
The first author wishes to thank the Ministry of Human Resources and Development (MHRD), Government of India, New Delhi, India, for providing financial assistance to carry out this research work. She also acknowledges the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for providing an opportunity to work on a research project (No. 56040107 “Nachhaltige Trinkwasserversorgung in Uttarakhand”) at the University of Applied Sciences Dresden (HTWD) in Dresden, Germany. Technical support provided to the first author by Prof. Thomas Grischek, HTWD, Dresden, Germany, and Profs. Hilmar Boernick and Eckhard Worch, Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany, is also gratefully acknowledged.
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Volume 142 • Issue 8 • August 2016
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Received: Feb 9, 2015
Accepted: Oct 1, 2015
Published online: Feb 26, 2016
Discussion open until: Jul 26, 2016
Published in print: Aug 1, 2016
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