Role of Alumina and Montmorillonite in Changing the Sorption of Herbicides to Biochars

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• 作者：Jianfa Li ; Saijun Li ; Huaping Dong ; Shengshuang Yang ; Yimin Li ; Jiaxing Zhong
• 刊名：Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：June 24, 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：63
• 期：24
• 页码：5740-5746
• 全文大小：340K
• ISSN：1520-5118

文摘

The influence of biochars on the fate of herbicides in soil depends mostly on environmental factors among which the role of soil minerals is not clear. Two wood-derived biochars produced at 400 掳C (BC400) and 600 掳C (BC600) were treated with alumina and montmorillonite to investigate their interaction with biochars and the influence of herbicide sorption. Both minerals exhibited a pore-expanding effect that was likely relative to the removal of authigenic organic matter away from the biochars鈥?surface. Alumina brought more remarkable pore expansion by doubling the surface area of the BC400 biochar and the mesopore area of the BC600 biochar. Consequently, more adsorption sites were accessible for herbicide molecules, which resulted in higher sorption of herbicides (acetochlor and metribuzin) to the mineral-treated biochars than to the untreated biochars. The results are useful for understanding the change of surface and sorption properties of biochars with soil applications.