A LABORATORY MODEL FOR THE ADSORPTION AND LOSS OF THE SULFATE TRANSPORT IN MULTI POROUS MEDIA OF SOIL

Abstract

Development of industries and agriculture, salts, especially sulfates, used in many industries, such as fertilizers and pesticides, have become one of the most common problems. In this paper, a laboratory model was established to study the sulfate-contaminated transport process. Four samples of porous media contain the same pollutant, sandy soil, sandy gravel soil, agricultural (organic) soil, and calcareous soil. Where a pollutant is pumped at a concentration of 280 mg/l through a system consisting of a tube of length 4 meters and 8 cm thickness and distributed in the soil Each type is one meter. The results showed that all types of soils, except organic, had leaching or loss of sulfates from the soil and dissolving them with a soil solution. The transfer of pollutants from soil to the solution may reach between 50 to 300 mg/l per meter, while organic soil showed the ability to Absorption up to 100 mg/L per meter. However, it was found that organic soil contains the largest amount of sulfate and was able to adsorption, and it was found that bacterial activity has a role in reducing sulfate in organic soil and thus returning the soil to adsorption after a certain time of saturation process.