TY - JFULL AU - Darius Jay R. Bongay and Roberto L. Ngo PY - 2012/2/ TI - Electroremediation of Cu-Contaminated Soil T2 - International Journal of Chemical and Molecular Engineering SP - 77 EP - 83 VL - 6 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/11188 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 61, 2012 N2 - This study investigated the removal efficiency of electrokinetic remediation of copper-contaminated soil at different combinations of enhancement reagents used as anolyte and catholyte. Sodium hydroxide (at 0.1, 0.5, and 1.0 M concentrations) and distilled water were used as anolyte, while lactic acid (at 0.01, 0.1, and 0.5 M concentrations), ammonium citrate (also at 0.01, 0.1, and 0.5 M concentrations) and distilled water were used as catholyte. A continuous voltage application (1.0 VDC/cm) was employed for 240 hours for each experiment. The copper content of the catholyte was determined at the end of the 240-hour period. Optimization was carried out with a Response Surface Methodology - Optimal Design, including F test, and multiple comparison method, to determine which pair of anolyte-catholyte was the most significant for the removal efficiency. "1.0 M NaOH" was found to be the most significant anolyte while it was established that lactic acid was the most significant type of catholyte to be used for the most successful electrokinetic experiments. Concentrations of lactic acid should be at the range of 0.1 M to 0.5 M to achieve maximum percent removal values. ER -