Determination of Chemical Species of Cadmium, Arsenic and Lead in Mineral Yard Soil by Modified BCR and ICP-AES Method

Abstract

Heavy metal elementals can be enriched in soil at mineral products yard, which become a problem of environmental pollution caused by elemental migration, transformation and circulation in underground water. In this experimentation the modified BCR sequential extraction method was applied to the chemical species analysis of Cd, As and Pb. Based on the properties of these three elementals, the chemical species of Cd, As and Pb were divided into four fractions: exchangeable, reducible, oxidizable and residual, and Inductively Coupled Plasma-Atomic Emission Spectrometry (ICP-AES) were used to measure the content of Cd, As and Pb. Morphological analysis standard reference material GBW 07436 was conducted to verify the accuracy of the three step extraction state. Contents of chemical species of Cd, As and Pb in soil from six mineral products yard were analyzed, including contents of three step extraction state plus the residual and the total contents of the desired metals elements. The recoveries were from 84.54% to 102.88%. The analysis results for actual samples demonstrated the contents of Cd, As and Pb in non-residual fraction were in order as Cd (79.40%-94.94%)>Pb(24.27%-37.73%)>As (22.89%-31.51%), which indicated Cd is easy to enter the biosphere. This method has resolved the problem to extract the chemical species of heavy metal elements in soil from port mineral products yard, and has profound significance to the treatment of contaminated soil.

Keywords

• mineral yard soil
• cadmium
• arsenic
• lead
• chemical species
• modified bcr method
• inductively coupled plasma-atomic emission