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Cs desorption behavior during hydrothermal treatment of illite with oxalic acid

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The desorption of radioactive cesium (Cs) in soil is influenced by the clay mineral type, adsorption site, and concentration of Cs. In this study, experiments to detect desorption of non-radioactive and radioactive Cs from illite using oxalic acid were performed for 2 days at 70 °C in hydrothermal conditions. The results showed that the 133Cs removal efficiency by oxalic acid and inorganic acid treatment was similar at high concentration (22.86 mmol/kg) of non-radioactive 133Cs. In the radioactive 137Cs experiment, the removal efficiency by oxalic acid was higher than that by inorganic acid at low concentration (0.79 × 10−6 mmol/kg) of radioactive 137Cs. Based on the illite hypothetical frayed edge site (FES) concentration of 0.612 mmol/kg, the results suggested that 137Cs was preferentially adsorbed to FES on illite. The 137Cs at low concentration was difficult to remove because it was irreversible adsorption to FES, while the non-radioactive Cs at high concentration was mainly adsorbed to planar sites, and so was easy to desorb by ion exchange. Based on the results of NMR, FTIR, and XPS analyses, we concluded that the higher efficiency of 137Cs removal at low concentration by oxalic acid treatment than by treatment with inorganic acid was because of chelation effects associated with the complexation of oxalic acid (ligands) and metal ions in irreversible site (FES).

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This study was supported by a National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korean government (Ministry of Science and ICT) (No. 2017 M2A8A5015148).

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    Sung-Man Kim, In-Ho Yoon, Il-Gook Kim, Chan Woo Park, YoungHo Sihn & June-Hyun Kim

  2. Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, College of Engineering, Chungnam National University, 99 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, 34134, Republic of Korea

    Sung-Man Kim & So-Jin Park

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Kim, SM., Yoon, IH., Kim, IG. et al. Cs desorption behavior during hydrothermal treatment of illite with oxalic acid. Environ Sci Pollut Res 27, 35580–35590 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-020-09675-3

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