Estudo da redução de Cr(VI) usando espécies de macrófitas aquáticas vivas pela técnica de fluorescência de raios-X de alta resolução

• Autor(a) principal: Martin, Neiva
• Data de Publicação: 2008
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações do UNIOESTE
• Texto Completo: http://tede.unioeste.br:8080/tede/handle/tede/1875
• topic: Cromo hexavalente; cromo trivalente; macrófitas vivas; HR-XRF; Hexavalent chromium; trivalent chromium; living macrophytes; HR-XRF; CNPQ::ENGENHARIAS::ENGENHARIA SANITARIA::TRATAMENTO DE AGUAS DE ABASTECIMENTO E RESIDUARIAS::ESTUDOS E CARACTERIZACAO DE EFLUENTES INDUSTRIAIS

In this work, the chromium ions bioaccumulation experiment was carried out using three species of aquatic macrophytes: Salvinia auriculata, Pistia stratiotes and Eicchornia crassipes, in order to confirm the hexavalent chromium detoxification during the biosorption process. Previously, a chromium speciation test based on chemical extraction of trivalent chromium from hexavalent chromium-doped hydroponic solutions was also performed at different pH, in order to verify if the nutritive solution pH could be responsible by the natural reduction of oxidation state on chromium before the biosorption process by the plants. No reduction from Cr(VI) to Cr(III) was observed at all solution pH. Based on the peculiar characteristics of High Resolution X-ray Fluorescence technique (HR-XRF), which allows to measure the X-ray Kß spectral line energy with good energy resolution (around 2,0 eV) for the transition metal region, the change on oxidation state of hexavalent chromium was possible to study through the Kß1,3, Kß2,5 and Kß spectral lines, which bring up information on chromium oxidation state and chemical environment. The HR-XRF measurements were performed at the XRD1 vacuum chamber available in the National Laboratory of Synchrotron Light, located near Campinas city. After collection, dry roots and chromium compound standard were prepared in compact disk by pressing. Each sample disk, spherical curved analyzer, and radiation detector were placed in a circle of Rowland within an arrangement of Johann. Another radiation detector was also used to monitoring of monochromatic X-ray beam intensity during the measurements. All the samples were irradiated by a 6.1 keV monochromatic X-ray beam. All the emission spectra were normalized to the monitor counts, and subtracted the organic matrix contribution and chromium absorption edge. Based on the spectral Kß2,5 peak intensity of roots and standard samples, the total chromium uptake concentration in plant was calculated, indicating that there is approximately 1.0 % of chromium per dry biomass after 27 days of experiment. When both Cr-Kß spectra of macrophytes roots with Cr(III) and Cr(VI) treatment were compared, their spectral Kß2,5 peak were identical in energy and width for the three aquatic plants, suggesting that the chromium reduction from hexavalent to trivalent form have occurred in all cases studied. The peak width at half maximum for Kß2,5 in all root samples were slightly larger than the chromium compound samples, which can be explained by the fact that there is the possibility to have different ligands to chromium ions inside the biological structure of roots. Based on these results, the chromium detoxification from hexavalent to trivalent form have actually happened during the biosorption of chromium into the macrophytes roots. Finally, these aquatic macrophytes have a great potential to detoxificate and accumulate of chromium ions that can be very useful to the metal removal from industrial effluents.