Copper Mobility in Acidic and Alkaline Soils: Miscible Displacement Experiments

2011 ◽  
Vol 75 (6) ◽  
pp. 2101-2110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tamer A. Elbana ◽  
H. Magdi Selim
Soil Systems ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua Padilla ◽  
H. Selim

Glyphosate (N-(phosphonomethyl) glycine) (GPS) is currently the most commonly used herbicide worldwide, and is generally considered as immobile in soils. However, numerous reports of the environmental occurrence of the herbicide coupled with recent evidence of human toxicity necessitate further investigation as to the behavior of GPS in the soil environment. Batch sorption studies along with miscible displacement experiments were carried out in order to assess the mobility of GPS in two Louisiana agricultural soils; Commerce silt loam and Sharkey clay. Batch results indicated a high affinity of both soils for solvated GPS, with greater affinity observed by the Sharkey soil. GPS sorption in the Commerce soil was most likely facilitated by the presence of amorphous Fe and Al oxides, whereas the high cation exchange capacity of the Sharkey soil likely allows for GPS complexation with surface exchangeable poly-valent cations. Miscible displacement studies indicate that GPS mobility is highly limited in both soils, with 3% and 2% of the applied herbicide mass recovered in the effluent solution from the Commerce and Sharkey soils, respectively. A two-site multi-reaction transport model (MRTM) adequately described GPS breakthrough from both soils and outperformed linear modeling efforts using CXTFIT. Analysis of extracted herbicide residues suggests that the primary metabolite of GPS, aminomethylphosphonic acid (AMPA), is more mobile in both soils, although both compounds are strongly retained.


Soil Science ◽  
1969 ◽  
Vol 107 (5) ◽  
pp. 372-380 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. K. KRUPP ◽  
D. E. ELRICK

Soil Science ◽  
1977 ◽  
Vol 124 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. L. STARR ◽  
J. - Y. PARLANGE

1975 ◽  
Vol 55 (4) ◽  
pp. 467-472 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. E. STEWART ◽  
C. T. CORKE ◽  
E. G. BEAUCHAMP ◽  
L. R. WEBBER

Miscible displacement and soil perfusion techniques were used to study the transformations of nitrogen in fractions of anaerobically digested sewage sludge. In miscible displacement experiments the rates of nitrification of NH4+-N of supernates of sludge were 115 μg NO3−-N/g soil/day at a flow rate of 0.17 cm h−1, and 81 μg NO3−-N/g soil/day at the lower flow rate of 0.10 cm h−1. The soil perfusion experiments indicated that only the ammonium-nitrogen of the sludge solids was oxidized to nitrate-nitrogen. The rates of nitrification of sludge were 37 μg NO3−-N/g soil/day for an application of 5.0 cm ha−1 and 15 μg NO3−-N/g soil/day for a sludge application equivalent to 2.5 cm ha−1. The experiments were not of sufficient duration to determine that mineralization of the organic-nitrogen in the digested sludge and subsequent nitrification occurred.


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