[Effect of Ca Modified Biochar on the Chemical Speciation of Soil Phosphorus and Its Stabilization Mechanism]

Huan Jing Ke Xue. 2024 Feb 8;45(2):983-991. doi: 10.13227/j.hjkx.202211160.
[Article in Chinese]

Abstract

To control of phosphorus release from soil after farmland inundation around the lake and reservoir, calcium modified biochar (Ca-BC) was prepared using the coprecipitation method. Through X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), X-ray polycrystalline powder diffraction (XRD), adsorption experiments, and simulated culture experiments, the effects of Ca-based biochar on the fraction of soil phosphorus (P) and its stabilization mechanism were studied. The results showed that the adsorption process of Ca-based modified biochar conformed to Langmuir (R2 = 0.940) and the first-order adsorption kinetic model (R2 = 0.961), indicating that the P adsorption was a single-layer adsorption dominated by chemical action, and the maximum adsorption capacity was 267.93 mg·g-1. The simulated culture experiment indicated that when the modified biochar was 1%, the exchangeable fraction of phosphorus in the soil decreased from 7.42% to 4.59%. The XRD results demonstrated that Ca3(PO42 and hydroxyapatite absorption peaks appeared after adsorbed phosphorus on biochar, which proved that phosphate formed a relatively stable crystal precipitation. As shown in the XPS spectrum analysis, the carbonyl functional groups participated in the phosphorus fixation process, which improved the adsorption capacity of biochar for phosphorus. In general, when the concentration of Ca-based modified biochar was greater than 1%, it had a good fixation capacity for phosphorus release and had potential application value for controlling phosphorus release in soil.

Keywords: chemical speciation; modified biochar; new submerged area; phosphorus; soil.

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