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Transport and deposition behaviors of microplastics in porous media: Co-impacts of N fertilizers and humic acid
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Inorganic and organic nitrogen fertilizers and humic acid were found to influence the transport and deposition of microplastics in porous media, with humic acid promoting microplastic mobility while ammonium chloride and urea had different effects on particle retention in soil columns.
Due to the interaction of fertilizers with microplastics (MPs) and porous media, fertilization process would influence MPs transport and distributions in soil. The co-impacts of N fertilizers (both inorganic and organic N fertilizers) and humic substance on MPs transport/retention behaviors in porous media were examined in 10 mM KCl solutions at pH 6. NHCl and CO(NH) were employed as inorganic and organic N fertilizers, respectively, while humic acid (HA) was used as model humic substance. We found that for all three sized MPs (0.2, 1 and 2 µm) without HA, both types of N fertilizers decreased their transport/increased their retention in porous media (both quartz sand and soil). N fertilizers adsorbed onto surfaces of MPs and sand/soil, lowering the electrostatic repulsion between MPs and porous media, thus contributed to the enhanced MPs deposition. MPs with N fertilizers in solutions more tightly attached onto porous media and thus were more difficult to be re-mobilized by low ionic strength solution elution. Via steric repulsion and increasing electrostatic repulsion between MPs and porous media due to adsorption onto their surfaces, HA could increase MPs transport with N fertilizers in solutions.
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