The Osamu Utsumi Mine of the Indústrias Nucleares do Brasil (INB), located in Caldas/MG, extracted and processed uranium from 1982 to 1995, after which, operations
ResumoÉ crescente mundo afora o uso de cortinas verticais para contenção da contaminação em água subterrânea. Os solos lateríticos, pela sua ampla distribuição no Brasil, possuem grande potencial de aplicação nessas obras. Entretanto algumas questões ainda carecem de maior investigação, como a interação e compatibilidade desses solos com a bentonita e o cimento, principais aditivos usados para melhorar as propriedades das cortinas. O presente artigo avalia propriedades de um solo laterítico e suas misturas com bentonita e cimento, incluindo a investigação de parâmetros geotécnicos mecânicos e hidráulicos. A campanha laboratorial consistiu de ensaios de caracterização física, físico-química e mineralógica, de condutividade hidráulica, de compressão simples e de cisalhamento direto. Os resultados demonstram que a adição de 3% de bentonita em amostras compactadas não trouxe a diminuição esperada da condutividade hidráulica do solo laterítico, ainda que tenha proporcionado um considerável incremento na resistência ao cisalhamento da mistura.
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The potential for the retention of K+, Cd2+, F, and Cl by lateritic soils from the Botucatu (an important sandy aquifer in the southeastern part of Brazil) and Serra Geral (a clayey material) formations and three mixtures of these soils is examined. Batch equilibrium results are presented for both single salt (CdCl2 and KF) and multiple salt (CdCl2 + KF) solutions. The soil retention parameters are obtained by fitting sorption models (linear, Freundlich, and Langmuir) to the experimental isotherm plots using linear and nonlinear regression analyses. The results show that the so called varying soil:solution ratio isotherms (VSI) are in fact less variant in terms of pH than constant soil:solution isotherms (CSI). However, because of restrictions related to the VSI approach and the "soil solution ratio effect," the CSI approach is considered to be a more reasonable way of constructing sorption isotherms. It is shown that under certain conditions, the Cl anion can be sorbed while for others it is not sorbed. Sorption was observed for F and K+. The sorption of Cd2+ is also shown to be highly sensitive to leachate chemistry. It is shown that a knowledge of pH0 is quite important for the interpretation of sorption data.Key words: sorption, inorganic chemicals, isotherms, tropical soils.
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