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Temperature effects on solute diffusion and adsorption in differently compacted kaolin clay

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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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Acknowledgments

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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  1. Myanmar Koei International Ltd., No. 1A/28, Myathida Housing, Ward 11, South Okkalapa Township, Yangon, Myanmar

    Ei Ei Mon

  2. Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 1-1-1, Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8657, Japan

    Shoichiro Hamamoto

  3. Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Saitama University, 255 Shimo-okubo, Sakura-ku, Saitama, 338-8570, Japan

    Ken Kawamoto & Toshiko Komatsu

  4. Department of Civil Engineering, Aalborg University, Sofiendalsvej 11, 9200, Aalborg SV, Denmark

    Per Moldrup

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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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