Nicoletta Calace

TL;DR: Experimental data showed that particle diffusion was involved in the sorption process but was not the only rate-limiting mechanism; several other mechanisms were involved.

TL;DR: Two kinds of municipal landfill leachates derived from 'old' and 'young' municipal waste landfills are characterised on the basis of the molecular weight distribution of the constituents, taking into account that the great variety of leachate constituents prevents any evaluation of the fate and of the role played by each component in the environmental impact.

TL;DR: In this article, the adsorption characteristics of paper mill sludge are evaluated for the purpose of removing metal ions from polluted waters, including Ag(I), Cd(II, Cu(II), Pb(II) and Cr(VI), as chromatized water.

TL;DR: The possibility was studied of using paper mill sludge as a stabilizer to reduce the bioavailable metal forms in polluted soils and thus the transferability of metals to plants (barley) and the decrease in mobile forms corresponds to a decrease in plant uptake.

TL;DR: The results obtained by leaching experiments showed that the addition of a paper mill sludge, consisting mainly of carbonates, silicates and organic matter, to a heavy-metal polluted soil produces a decrease of available metal forms.