| DOI: | 10.2172/1052856
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| 报告号: | DOE/ER64404-01
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| 报告题名: | Final report for DOE Grant No. DE-FG02-07ER64404 - Field Investigations of Microbially Facilitated Calcite Precipitation for Immobilization of Strontium-90 and Other Trace Metals in the Subsurface |
| 作者: | Smith, Robert W; Fujita, Yoshiko; Ginn, Timothy R; Hubbard, Susan S
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| 出版年: | 2012
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| 发表日期: | 2012-10-12
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| 总页数: | 20
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| 国家: | 美国
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| 语种: | 英语
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| 英文关键词: | Strontium-90
; bioremediation
; urea hydrolysis
; calcite precipitation
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| 中文主题词: | 碳
; 降水
; 无机碳
; 金属
; 污染物
; 微量金属
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| 主题词: | CARBON
; PRECIPITATION
; INORGANIC CARBON
; METALS
; CONTAMINANTS
; TRACE METALS
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| 英文摘要: | Subsurface radionuclide and metal contaminants throughout the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) complex pose one of DOE's greatest challenges for long-term stewardship. One promising stabilization mechanism for divalent ions, such as the short-lived radionuclide 90Sr, is co-precipitation in calcite. We have previously found that that nutrient addition can stimulate microbial ureolytic activity that this activity accelerates calcite precipitation and co-precipitation of Sr, and that higher calcite precipitation rates can result in increased Sr partitioning. We have conducted integrated field, laboratory, and computational research to evaluate the relationships between ureolysis and calcite precipitation rates and trace metal partitioning under environmentally relevant conditions, and investigated the coupling between flow/flux manipulations and precipitate distribution. A field experimental campaign conducted at the Integrated Field Research Challenge (IFRC) site located at Rifle, CO was based on a continuous recirculation design; water extracted from a down-gradient well was amended with urea and molasses (a carbon and electron donor) and re-injected into an up-gradient well. The goal of the recirculation design and simultaneous injection of urea and molasses was to uniformly accelerate the hydrolysis of urea and calcite precipitation over the entire inter-wellbore zone. The urea-molasses recirculation phase lasted, with brief interruptions for geophysical surveys, for 12 days followed by long-term monitoring which continued for 13 months. Following the recirculation phase we found persistent increases in urease activity (as determined from 14C labeled laboratory urea hydrolysis rates) in the upper portion of the inter-wellbore zone. We also observed an initial increase (approximately 2 weeks) in urea concentration associated with injection activities followed by decreasing urea concentration and associated increases in ammonium and dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) following the termination of injection. Based on the loss of urea and the appearance of ammonium, a first order rate constant for urea hydrolysis of 0.18 day-1 rate with an associate Rf for ammonium of 11 were estimated. This rate constant is approximately 6 times higher than estimated for previous field experiments conducted in eastern Idaho. Additionally, DIC carbon isotope ratios were measured for the groundwater. Injected urea had a ´13C of 40.7Âą0.4 ° compared to background groundwater DIC of ´13C of -16.0Âą0.2°. Observed decreases in groundwater DIC ´13C of up to -19.8° followed temporal trends similar to those observed for ammonium and suggest that both the increase in ammonium and the sift in ´13C are the result of urea hydrolysis. Although direct observation of calcite precipitation was not possible because of the high pre-existing calcite content in the site sediments, an observed ´13C decrease for solid carbonates from sediment samples collect following urea injection (compared to pre-injection values) is likely the result of the incorporation of inorganic carbon derived from urea hydrolysis into newly formed solid carbonates. |
| URL: | http://www.osti.gov/scitech/servlets/purl/1052856
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| 资源类型: | 研究报告
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| 标识符: | http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/40493
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Smith, Robert W,Fujita, Yoshiko,Ginn, Timothy R,et al. Final report for DOE Grant No. DE-FG02-07ER64404 - Field Investigations of Microbially Facilitated Calcite Precipitation for Immobilization of Strontium-90 and Other Trace Metals in the Subsurface. 2012-01-01.
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