Adsorption of uranyl onto ferric oxyhydroxides: Application of the surface complexation site-binding model

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Sep 1985

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Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, vol. 49, Issue 9, pp.1931-1941

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Uranyl adsorption was measured from aqueous electrolyte solutions onto well-characterized goethite, amorphous ferric oxyhydroxide, and hematite sols at 25°C. Adsorption was studied at a total uranyl concentration of 10 -5 M, (dissolved uranyl 10 -5 to 10 -8 M) as a function of solution pH, ionic strength and electrolyte concentrations, and of competing cations and carbonate complexing. Solution pHs ranged from 3 to 10 in 0.1 M NaNO 3 solutions containing up to 0.01 M NaHCO 3 . All the iron oxide materials strongly adsorbed dissolved uranyl species at pHs above 5 to 6 with adsorption greatest onto amorphous ferric oxyhydroxide and least onto well crystallized specular hematite. The presence of Ca or Mg at the 10 -3 M level did not significantly affect uranyl adsorption. However, uranyl carbonate and hydroxy-carbonate complexing severely inhibited adsorption. The uranyl adsorption data measured in carbonate-free solutions was accurately modeled with the surface complexation-site binding model of Davis et al . (1978), assuming adsorption was chiefly of the UO 2 OH + and (UO 2 ) 3 (OH) + 5 , aqueous complexes. In modeling it was assumed that these complexes formed a monodentate UO 2 OH + surface complex, and a monodentate, bidentate or tridentate (UO 2 ) 3 (OH) + 5 surface complex. Of the latter, the bidentate surface complex is the most likely, based on crystallographic arguments. Modeling was less successful predicting uranyl adsorption in the presence of significant uranyl carbonate and hydroxy-carbonate complexing. It was necessary to slightly vary the intrinsic constants for adsorption of the di- and tricarbonate complexes in order to fit the uranyl adsorption data at total carbonate concentrations of 10 -2 and 10 -3 M.

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