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Change in Arsenic Leaching from Silty Soil by Adding Slag Cement

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Cementitious materials are commonly used to reinforce the bearing capacity of silty soils. However, there is very little data about how changes in arsenic (As) leaching from silty soils caused by the addition of cementitious materials. Therefore, batch leaching tests were conducted using As-bearing silty soil under different pH conditions. The pH was adjusted by changing the amount of slag cement added or the concentration of sodium hydroxide. This allows us to evaluate the effects of cement on As leaching. In addition, two different additives were applied to reduce As migration. The results show that high concentration of calcium ion (Ca2+) in leachates of soil-cement mixture has a significant effect in reducing the mobility of As even under hyperalkaline pH conditions. Arsenic immobilized by Ca2+ was observed in two patterns. The first mechanism was the help of Ca2+ to reduce the negative electrical potential on the surface of (hydr)oxide minerals under high pH conditions, thereby reducing the mobility of As by adsorption and coagulation of fresh precipitates of Fe and Al hydroxides. The second was the precipitation of calcium carbonate. This precipitate either directly adsorb/co-precipitate As or lower the concentration of strong competing ion, silica, both of which reduced the As mobility. When Ca- or Mg-based additive was added to the silty soil-cement mixture, As concentration in the leachate decreased. These findings are useful in developing sustainable soil-cement reinforcement techniques to avoid contamination.

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The authors wish to thank the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) grant-in-aid for scientific research (Grant number: JP26289149) for the financial support and Hokkaido Development for supporting in collecting the core sample.

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    Pawit Tangviroon & Toshifumi Igarashi

  2. Laboratory of Resources, Environment, and Remediation, Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 060-8628, Japan

    Pawit Tangviroon

  3. Graduate School of Engineering, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, 060-8628, Japan

    Yuka Endo, Ryota Fujinaka & Masato Kobayashi

  4. Pacific Consultants Co., Ltd, 3-22 Kanda-Nishikicho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 101-8462, Japan

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Tangviroon, P., Endo, Y., Fujinaka, R. et al. Change in Arsenic Leaching from Silty Soil by Adding Slag Cement. Water Air Soil Pollut 231, 259 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11270-020-04630-x

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