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Conference Papers Year : 2012

Synchrotron x-ray and electron micro-probe study of contaminated dredged sediments.

Abstract

Sediments originating from periodic dredging of waterways were traditionally disposed of in storage sites without any precautions or treatments. There may be some environmental concerns especially when the dredged material comes from historically contaminated areas such as the North French coal basin. This study aims to characterize the metal mobility in deposited dredged sediment by combining chemical and spectroscopic techniques. Electron probe micro-analyse (EPMA) combined with microbeam x-ray fluorescence (µXRF) at Synchrotron sources were used to identify Zn and Pb carriers. In particular Zn and Pb distributions in thin-section samples were determined by µ-XRF elemental mappings. EPMA was used to determine the distribution of light elements for which the energy of the emission lines is below 4 keV (Si, S, P...). The presence of reduced (sulphides) and oxidized (sulphates, oxihydroxides) phases strongly suggests that the redox state is one of the major parameters controlling the metal mobility. Therefore x-ray absorption spectroscopy experiments were also performed to study the oxidation state in both bulk samples and on selected regions of interest in thin section samples In this work, the potential effects of the sample preparation were also studied and will be presented.
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hal-00657766 , version 1 (09-01-2012)

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Antonine Poitevin, Louis Hennet, Philippe Bataillard, Guillaume Wille, Catherine Lerouge. Synchrotron x-ray and electron micro-probe study of contaminated dredged sediments.. EUROSOIL 2012 : 4th International Congress of the European Confederation of Soil Science Societies (ECSSS), Jul 2012, Bari, Italy. pp.00. ⟨hal-00657766⟩
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