Adsorption Properties and Environmental Applications of Clay Minerals
A special issue of Minerals (ISSN 2075-163X). This special issue belongs to the section "Clays and Engineered Mineral Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 June 2024 | Viewed by 850
Special Issue Editors
Interests: radioactive waste repository; transport of radioactive contaminants; engineered barriers; sorption and transport models; bentonite
Interests: attapulgite; palygorskite; halloysite; mineral pigments; environmental mineral materials; resource utilization of solid wastes; antibacterial material
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Clay minerals play a fundamental role in many environmental processes, particularly in controlling the movement of various ions and molecules in soils, waters and natural and/or engineered barriers of waste storage facilities. A number of operations and applications are being facilitated by clay minerals, via either their direct use or after modification; this is with the aim of improving their environmental quality. The mineralogical, chemical and geotechnical characterization of the clay materials studied and applied needs to be carried out in order to learn which controlling processes determine the uptake of contaminants by clay materials. In order to predict the changes in the studied environmental systems over time, it is necessary to search for an adequate mathematical description of the individual identified sub-processes. Knowledge of these sub-models and their interconnectedness in global transport models make it possible to predict the flow of contaminants in the vicinity of contamination sources. Papers addressing (i) waste water treatment technologies using clay materials, (ii) theoretical aspects of the capture of significant contaminants on the surface of clay minerals, and (iii) the modeling of contaminant transport in such an environment, of which clay minerals are a significant part, are welcome.
Dr. Dušan Vopálka
Dr. Bin Mu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- natural and modified clay materials
- methods of instrumental characterization
- uptake of cations and anions
- batch and transport experiments
- removal of pollutants from waters
- sorption models
- transport of contaminants in compacted clays
