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Zeolitized tuffs in pedotechniques to improve soil resilience against the impact of treatment by municipal sewage: balance of nutrient and noxious cations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2018

G. F. Capra ,
A. Buondonno ,
E. Coppola ,
M. G. Duras ,
S. Vacca  and
C. Colella
G. F. Capra*
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Scienze Botaniche, Ecologiche e Geologiche, Università di Sassari, Nuoro, Via Colombo 1, Località Sa Terra Mala, 08100 Nuoro, Italy
A. Buondonno
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Scienze Ambientali, Seconda Università di Napoli, Caserta, Via Vivaldi 43, 81100 Caserta, Italy
E. Coppola
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Scienze Ambientali, Seconda Università di Napoli, Caserta, Via Vivaldi 43, 81100 Caserta, Italy
M. G. Duras
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Scienze Botaniche, Ecologiche e Geologiche, Università di Sassari, Nuoro, Via Colombo 1, Località Sa Terra Mala, 08100 Nuoro, Italy
S. Vacca
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Scienze Botaniche, Ecologiche e Geologiche, Università di Sassari, Nuoro, Via Colombo 1, Località Sa Terra Mala, 08100 Nuoro, Italy
C. Colella
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Ingegneria dei Materiali e della Produzione, Università Federico II, Napoli, P.le Tecchio 80, 80125 Napoli, Italy
*
*E-mail: pedolnu@uniss.it
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Abstract

Two zeolitized tuffs (ZTs), viz. a Neapolitan yellow tuff (NYT) and a clinoptilolite-bearing tuff (ZCL), were tested as pedotechnical materials to improve soil resilience against the impact of treatment by a ‘dirty’ municipal sewage system (DSW). Soils (surface horizon) were a sandy, alkaline Entisol (Typic Xeropsamment), and a sandy-loam, sub-acidic Alfisol (Ultic Palexeralf). Results showed that the presence of ZTs resulted in several favourable effects. Electrical conductivity (EC) decreased and pH was buffered. Ammonium was selectively taken up from the DSW, making the zeolitized tuffs almost saturated by NH4+, by exchanging both beneficial cations, such as K+ and Ca2+, thus improving their potential availability to plants, and undesirable cations such as Na+, thereby hindering the exchangeable sodium percentage (ESP) increase and concurrent soil salinization-alkalinization. At the same time, NH4+ was stored as a potentially slow-release nitrogen fertilizer. The mobility of Pb, Cu and Zn dropped off to a large extent. NYT produced the best effects, and the Entisol gained the greatest benefit from treatments.

Keywords

pedotechniquesoil resiliencenatural zeoliteszeolite tuffwaste watermunicipal sewage treatmention exchange reactions
Type
Research Article
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Clay Minerals , Volume 46 , Issue 2 , June 2011 , pp. 261 - 278
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Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 2011

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