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Shaw, Samuel
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- 2022Hydrotalcite colloid stability and interactions with uranium(VI) at neutral to alkaline pH.citations
- 2021A spectroscopic study of trivalent cation (Cm3+ and Eu3+) sorption on monoclinic zirconia (ZrO2)citations
- 2019U(VI) sorption during ferrihydrite formation: Underpinning radioactive effluent treatmentcitations
- 2019A spectroscopic study of trivalent cation (Cm3+ and Eu3+) sorption on monoclinic zirconia (ZrO2)citations
- 2018Stability, composition and core-shell particle structure of uranium(IV)-silicate colloidscitations
- 2016Release of Ni from birnessite during transformation of birnessite to todorokite: Implications for Ni cycling in marine sedimentscitations
- 2014Nucleation and growth of todorokite from birnessite: Implications for trace-metal cycling in marine sedimentscitations
- 2013Partitioning of Pb(II) during goethite and hematite crystallization: Implications for Pb transport in natural systemscitations
- 2006The rate of ferrihydrite transformation to goethite via the Fe(II) pathwaycitations
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U(VI) sorption during ferrihydrite formation: Underpinning radioactive effluent treatment
Abstract
Iron (oxyhydr)oxide nanoparticles are known to sorb metals, including radionuclides, from solution in various environmental and industrial systems. Effluent treatment processes including the Enhanced Actinide Removal Plant (EARP) (Sellafield, UK) use a neutralisation process to induce the precipitation of iron (oxyhydr)oxides to remove radionuclides from solution. There is a paucity of information on mechanism(s) of U(VI) removal under conditions relevant to such industrial processes. Here, we investigated removal of U(VI) from simulated effluents containing 7.16 mM Fe(III) with 4.2 × 10−4–1.05 mM U(VI), during the base induced hydrolysis of Fe(III). The solid product was ferrihydrite under all conditions. Acid dissolutions, Fourier Transform infrared spectroscopy and thermodynamic modelling indicated that U(VI) was removed from solution by adsorption to the ferrihydrite. The sorption mechanism was supported by X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy which showed U(VI) was adsorbed to ferrihydrite via a bidentate edge-sharing inner-sphere species with carbonate forming a ternary surface complex. At concentrations ≤0.42 mM U(VI) was removed entirely via adsorption, however at 1.05 mM U(VI) there was also evidence for precipitation of a discrete U(VI) phase. Overall these results confirm that U(VI) sequestered via adsorption to ferrihydrite over a concentration range from 4.2 × 10−4–0.42 mM confirming a remarkably consistent removal mechanism in this industrially relevant system.