Abstract
Effects of soil temperature on the solute diffusion process in soils are important since subsurface temperature variation affects solute transport such as a fertilizer movement, leaching of salt, and pollutant movement to groundwater aquifers. However, the temperature dependency on the solute diffusion process in soils has been poorly understood and rarely documented. In this study, solute diffusion experiments as well as equilibrium adsorption experiments using pure kaolin clay were conducted under different temperature conditions. The experiments of K+ adsorption on kaolin clay showed more enhanced adsorption of K+ at elevated temperature likely because surface charge characteristics were affected at different temperature conditions for the kaolin clay. The temperature dependent solute diffusion showed that the solute diffusion coefficient at 40 °C was around two times higher than that at 6 °C for Cl− and K+. Overall, Arrhenius equation describing temperature dependent solute diffusion was applicable for both ions in samples at different bulk densities. At 40 °C, the liquid-phase impedance factor decreased, while liquid-phase pore-network tortuosity increased, suggesting changes in chemical surface activity towards the solute or pore structure changes of the clay fabric at the elevated temperature.
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Abbreviations
- GSHP:
-
Ground source heat pump
- SVD:
-
Specified volume diffusion
- MIP:
-
Mercury intrusion porosimeter
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This work was supported by the Research Management Bureau, Saitama University, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research of JSPS (No. 26709033), Core Research Evolutionary Science and Technology (CREST) from Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), and a SATREPS project from JST-JICA.
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Mon, E.E., Hamamoto, S., Kawamoto, K. et al. Temperature effects on solute diffusion and adsorption in differently compacted kaolin clay. Environ Earth Sci 75, 562 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12665-016-5358-2
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