生物膜和土壤矿物对人工纳米颗粒在饱和多孔介质传输的影响

本文探究了人工纳米颗粒(NPs)在饱和多孔介质中的传输规律和影响机制，重点阐明生物膜和土壤矿物对纳米颗粒传输的影响及其机制。结果表明，在干净的石英砂介质中，不同种类和粒径NPs的传输效率具有明显差异，不同种类NPs传输效率表现为ZnO> CeO2>Fe2O3；对于报告粒径在20～100 nm之间的CeO2 NPs，粒径的增加有助于其在多孔介质的传输。溶液离子强度的增大会降低Zn O NPs的传输，而NPs浓度的增大不利于其在饱和多孔介质的传输，传统的DLVO理论能够很好地解释NPs在无涂层饱和多孔介质中的传输。生物膜和土壤矿物均能抑制纳米颗粒在饱和多孔介质的传输，其主要通过对纳米颗粒的吸附和异质聚集作用影响纳米颗粒的传输，非DLVO相互作用以及介质涂层的表面特性对增强纳米颗粒沉积有很大贡献。     

生物炭颗粒在饱和多孔介质中的迁移与滞留

生物炭在实际生产实践中具有许多潜在的农业和环境效益,因此受到了越来越多的关注。生物炭在多孔介质中的迁移不仅会影响它在土壤中的归趋,还可能会影响微生物群体及土壤有机质的动态变化以及被吸附的污染物对环境的影响。实验通过柱实验研究了微米级生物炭颗粒在饱和多孔介质中的迁移和滞留特性,主要选取了四种影响生物炭迁移的潜在因素:原材料、裂解温度、背景溶液pH值和离子强度。实验结果显示微米级生物炭在饱和多孔介质中具有一定的迁移能力,但是大部分的微米级生物炭会滞留在饱和多孔介质的表面和孔隙间。生物炭的制备原材料对于生物炭的表面电势特性有较大影响,从而影响了微米级生物炭在饱和多孔介质中的迁移能力。热解温度越高,生物炭的表面电势越大,迁移能力越弱。随着背景溶液离子强度增加和pH值减小,微米级生物炭颗粒在多孔介质中滞留增加,迁移能力减弱。     

Retention and Transport of PAH-Degrading Bacterium <Emphasis Type="Italic">Herbaspirillum chlorophenolicum</Emphasis> FA1 in Saturated Porous Media Under Various Physicochemical Conditions

Dispersal of functional microorganisms is a rate-limiting process during in situ bioremediation of contaminated soil and groundwater. In this work, series of column experiments were conducted to investigate the retention and transport behaviors of Herbaspirillum chlorophenolicum FA1, a promising bacterial agent for bioremediation, in saturated porous media under conditions of different combinations of grain size, solution pH, solution ionic strength (IS), and humic acid (HA) concentration. Experimental data showed that the mobility of FA1 in saturated porous media was strongly dependent on the physicochemical conditions. The breakthrough curves (BTCs) indicated that the amounts of FA1 in the effluent increased with increasing in sand size, solution pH, and HA concentration, but decreased with increase of solution IS. The shape of retention profiles (RPs) was hyper-exponential. The amounts of retained bacteria in the media also varied with the experimental conditions with opposite trends to that of effluent. Both experimental BTCs and RPs were simulated by a mathematical model that accounted for deposition kinetics to better interpret the effects of physicochemical conditions on FA1 deposition dynamics. Findings from this study showed that fate and transport of the functional bacterium FA1 in porous media strongly relied on the environmental conditions. Both experimental and modeling results can provide guidelines for field application of functional bacteria for soil and groundwater remediation.