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Coupling of arsenic mobility to sulfur transformations during microbial sulfate reduction in the presence and absence of humic acid

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Burton, Edward D. ; Johnston, Scott G. ; Planer-Friedrich, Britta:
Coupling of arsenic mobility to sulfur transformations during microbial sulfate reduction in the presence and absence of humic acid.
In: Chemical Geology. Bd. 343 (2013) . - S. 12-24.
ISSN 0009-2541
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2013.02.005

Abstract

Microbial sulfate reduction is an important terminal electron accepting process in arsenic-contaminated subsurface environments. Humic acids are ubiquitous in such environments, yet their impact on arsenic mobility under sulfate-reducing conditions is poorly understood. In this study, we examined the effects of microbial sulfate reduction and humic acid on arsenic mobilization via a series of advective-flow column experiments. The initial solid-phase in these experiments comprised quartz sand that was coated with As(III)-sorbed goethite (α-FeOOH). The effect of humic acid was assessed by comparing columns that received artificial groundwater in which humic acid was either absent or present at 100 mg L−1, whilst the effect of microbial sulfate reduction was investigated by comparing columns that were inoculated with the sulfate-reducer Desulfovibrio vulgaris (ATCC strain 7757) versus abiotic control columns. The presence of high concentrations of humic acid alone did not enhance the overall extent of arsenic release from either the abiotic or the inoculated (sulfate reducing) columns. This is consistent with similar arsenic concentrations in porewaters filtered to both b0.45 μm and b3 kDa, demonstrating that aqueous arsenic did not form mobile colloidal humic acid complexes. In contrast, microbial sulfate reduction was found to mobilize substantial levels of arsenic relative to those observed in the corresponding abiotic control columns. Iron and sulfur K-edge X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) showed that reaction between goethite and microbially-produced sulfide lead to accumulation of mackinawite (FeS) and elemental S. Microbial sulfate reduction also caused important changes in arsenic speciation, especially the formation of aqueous dithioarsenate and monothioarsenate. However, arsenic K-edge XAS showed that arsenic sulfide mineral phases (orpiment and realgar) did not form during the 60 day advective-flow experiment. The formation of poorly-sorbing thioarsenate species appeared to contribute to the observed enhancement of arsenicmobilization fromthe inoculated columns. Dithioarsenate and monothioarsenate were relatively stable, and were found to make up>40% of aqueous arsenic even at very low porewater sulfide concentrations (i.e. b10 μmol L−1). Accordingly, the formation, stability and sorption– desorption of thioarsenate species need to be considered when evaluating and predicting subsurface arsenic mobility

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Zusätzliche Informationen: BAYCEER109367
Institutionen der Universität: Fakultäten > Fakultät für Biologie, Chemie und Geowissenschaften > Fachgruppe Geowissenschaften > Professur Umweltgeochemie
Fakultäten > Fakultät für Biologie, Chemie und Geowissenschaften > Fachgruppe Geowissenschaften > Professur Umweltgeochemie > Professur Umweltgeochemie - Univ.-Prof. Dr. Britta Planer-Friedrich
Forschungseinrichtungen > Forschungszentren > Bayreuther Zentrum für Ökologie und Umweltforschung - BayCEER
Fakultäten
Fakultäten > Fakultät für Biologie, Chemie und Geowissenschaften
Fakultäten > Fakultät für Biologie, Chemie und Geowissenschaften > Fachgruppe Geowissenschaften
Forschungseinrichtungen
Forschungseinrichtungen > Forschungszentren
Titel an der UBT entstanden: Ja
Themengebiete aus DDC: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik
Eingestellt am: 03 Mai 2015 08:56
Letzte Änderung: 14 Jul 2020 10:56
URI: https://eref.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/12628