An Experimental Investigation of the Environmental Risk of a Metallurgical Waste Deposit
Објеката
- Тип
- Рад у часопису
- Верзија рада
- објављена верзија
- Језик
- енглески
- Креатор
- Jasmina Dedić , Jelena Djokic , Jovana Galjak, Gordana Milentijević, Dragan Lazarevic, Živče Šarkočević, Milena Lekić
- Извор
- Minerals
- Издавач
- MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
- Датум издавања
- 2022
- Сажетак
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The aim of this study is to investigate the environmental risk of long-term metallurgical waste disposal. The investigated site was used for the open storage of lead and zinc waste materials originating from a lead smelter and refinery. Even after remediation was performed, the soil in the close vicinity of the metallurgical waste deposit was heavily loaded with heavy metals and arsenic. The pollutants were bound in various compounds in the form of sulfides, oxides, and chlorides, as well as complex minerals, impacting the pH values of the investigated soil, such that they varied between 2.8 for sample 6 and 7.34 for sample 8. In order to assess the environmental risk, some eight soil samples were analyzed by determining the total metal concentration by acid digestion and chemical fractionation of heavy metals using the BCR sequential extraction method.
Inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry (ICP-OES) was used to determine six elements (As, Cd, Cu, Pb, Zn, and Ni). Total concentrations of the elements in the tested soil samples were in the range of 3870.4–52,306.18 mg/kg for As, 2.19–49.84 mg/kg for Cd, 268.03–986.66 mg/kg for Cu, 7.34–114.67 mg/kg for Ni, 1223.13–30,339.74 mg/kg for Pb, and 58.21–8212.99 mg/kg for Zn. The ratio between the mean concentrations of the tested metals was determined in this order: As > Pb > Zn > Cu > Ni > Cd. The BCR results showed that Pb (50.7%), Zn (49.2%), and Cd (34.7%) had the highest concentrations in mobile fractions in the soil compared to the other metals. The contamination factor was very high for Pb (0.09–33.54), As (0.004–195.8), and Zn (0.14–16.06). According to the calculated index of potential environmental risk, it was confirmed that the mobility of Pb and As have a great impact on the environment.
- Број
- 12
- doi
- 10.3390/min12060661
- issn
- 2075-163X
- Subject
- otpad od proizvodnje olova, remedijacija, rizik po životnu sreinu, BCR sekvencijalna ekstrakcija
- lead production waste; remedy; environmental risk; BCR sequential extraction
- Шира категорија рада
- M20
- Ужа категорија рада
- М22
- Права
- Отворени приступ
- Лиценца
- Creative Commons – Attribution 4.0 International
- Формат
Jasmina Dedić , Jelena Djokic , Jovana Galjak, Gordana Milentijević, Dragan Lazarevic, Živče Šarkočević, Milena Lekić. "An Experimental Investigation of the Environmental Risk of a Metallurgical Waste Deposit" in Minerals, MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. (2022). https://doi.org/10.3390/min12060661
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