Sorption when groundwater contaminating by heavy metals and radioactive elements. Copper
The second issue of the series «Sorption processes at contamination of groundwater heavy metals and radioactive elements» is devoted to the study of the adsorption / desorption behavior of copper. The adsorption of heavy metal cations by soils has importance in determining their availability to the plant and their movement through the soil. The main interest of this issue is mechanisms of copper retention and the effect of soil pH, macrocations, organic and inorganic ligands. Interaction copper with organic ligands is one of the mechanisms controlling availability and mobility this metal. Disposal of wastes such as municipal compost, waste incinerator slag and sewage sludge is locally a significant source of Cu application to land. One of the practical problems of this issue is to obtain information for the modeling copper behavior in «water - rock» interaction and contamination of aquifer. The review will be useful for professionals modelling processes of heavy metals contamination in aquifer.