Avaliação da qualidade de águas superficiais: uma abordagem local com proposta de mitigação por adsorção em fase sólida
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2024-12-17
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Rocha, Ana Kelly Simões
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Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo
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The assessment of surface water quality through continuous monitoring has received increased attention in recent years due to the increasing degradation of aquatic environments. This monitoring is essential to support Contaminated Area Management (CAM) studies, which include important steps such as the preliminary and detailed assessment of aquatic environments. The deltaic region of the Doce River, a floodplain highly vulnerable to contamination, is affected by mining, agricultural and industrial activities, and possibly by the effects of the Fundão dam collapse in 2015. Thus, the city of Degredo, which belongs to the deltaic region, was addressed in a specific case study, which identified high concentrations of Al, Ba, B, Co, Fe, P, Mn, Ni and Zn in the waters of points P1 and P3, above the CONAMA 357/2005 and IRMA legislation, constituting Potentially Toxic Elements (PTEs). A simulated Human Health Risk Assessment (HHRA) at this site ranged from "insignificant" to "low", with water ingestion as the main route of exposure. In addition, analyses showed that contamination levels increased after the dam breach (IPTTh between 0.40 and 23.73), contrary to the expected trend. The adsorption process was used as an alternative for the remediation of water contaminated by EPTs, using the CA-CaCO3 adsorbent, synthesised by dispersing CaCO3 on a porous carbon support derived from biomass. This material contained 12 wt% of nanocrystalline CaCO3 particles. The adsorbent and pure CA showed high efficiency, removing 99.9% of Fe2+, Mn2+, Cd2+, Ni2+, Zn2+ and Pb2+ ions in 20 min under optimised conditions (pH = 6.00 and adsorbent mass = 100 mg). Structural and chemical analyses (XRD, TG, SEM-EDX, mapping and ICP-OES) of CA and CA-CaCO3 helped to understand the structural and chemical characteristics of these materials, while kinetic and isothermal analyses showed that the process occurs by chemisorption. Thus, this work is linked to concepts of risk management, sustainability and circular economy, and provides an efficient and cost-effective alternative for the remediation of water contaminated by EPTs.
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Química ambiental , Carvão ativado , Adsorção