Abstract
The mobility of nano zero-valent iron (nZVI) will greatly affect its practical application as a remediation material for contaminated groundwater. One-dimensional (1D) column tests are commonly used in previous work to study its migration behavior, but the two-dimensional (2D) test is still very limited. This study reports a novel research system to study the 2D transport and retention behavior of colloids and solutes, which includes a 2D model test setup and the corresponding image analysis method. The transport behaviors of methyl orange (MO), nZVI, and phosphate-loaded nZVI (PnZVI) are studied using this system. The results show that the research system can reasonably describe the tempo-spatial concentration distribution of colloids and solutes. After phosphate adsorption, the mobility of nZVI is enhanced due to the increase in negative surface charge, which implies a potential environmental risk of nZVI to facilitate contaminant transport. The migration of PnZVI is not significantly influenced by its density, which is faster than MO in the longitudinal direction. The range of the plume of PnZVI in the longitudinal direction is larger than that of MO, which implies that PnZVI has a stronger longitudinal dispersion than MO.
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