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a Remediation and Containment Branch, Land Remediation and Pollution Control Division, National Risk Management Research Laboratory, USEPA, 26 West Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, Cincinnati, OH 45268
b Animal Manure and Byproducts Lab, Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, USDA-ARS-ANRI, Beltsville, MD 20705
c Department of Soil Science, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka
* Corresponding author (gangah{at}pdn.ac.lk).
Received for publication October 1, 2002. To evaluate the importance of both the inorganic and organic fractions in biosolids on Cd chemistry, a series of Cd sorption and desorption batch experiments (at pH 5.5) were conducted on different fractions of soils from a long-term field experimental site. The slope of the Cd sorption isotherm increased with rate of biosolids and was different for the different biosolids. Removal of organic carbon (OC) reduced the slope of the Cd sorption isotherm but did not account for the observed differences between biosolids-amended soils and a control soil, indicating that the increased adsorption associated with biosolids application was not limited to the increased OC from the addition of biosolids. Removal of both OC and Fe/Mn further reduced the slopes of Cd sorption isotherms and the sorption isotherm of the biosolids-amended soil was the same as that of the control, indicating both OC and Fe/Mn fractions added by the biosolids were important to the increased sorption observed for the biosolids-amended soil samples. Desorption experiments failed to remove from 60 to 90% of the sorbed Cd. This "apparent hysteresis" was higher for biosolids-amended soil than the control soil. Removal of both OC and Fe/Mn fractions was more effective in removing the observed differences between the biosolids-amended soil and the control than either alone. Results show that Cd added to biosolids-amended soil behaves differently than Cd added to soils without biosolids and support the hypothesis that the addition of Fe and Mn in the biosolids increased the retention of Cd in biosolids-amended soils.
Abbreviations: -Fe/Mn, easily reducible iron and manganese removed • -FeO, free iron oxide removed • OC, organic carbon • -OC, organic carbon removed
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