What happens when nitrate contaminated drainage water is diverted to soils with high iron content? Will it form ferric nitrate? If then, what are the dangers of ferric nitrate to ecology?
Hello friends, what happens when nitrate contaminated drainage water is diverted to soils with high iron content? Will it form ferric nitrate? If then, what are the dangers of ferric nitrate to ecology?
Dear Mabaya your question for nitrate have to dispose in soil, which is iron rich. But due to this I fear that ground water may get contaminated and may rise in nitrate and iron concentration more than the prescribed by WHO. So it is better to treat the water before discharging and make the dilution of nitrate. Also the streams or surface water can lead to the eutrophication problem ,so think over it and resolve the problem.
I agree totally with Evans, if ph >1 Iron Oxide and Idroxide cannot be dissolved in water containing Nitrate. The Nitrate group, present a very high oxidative level (+5). This is only in acidic solution and it tends to reduce itself to +4 or +2 depending if we are speaking about a concentrated or diluted nirate solution.
Hi Mabaya: There is usually a high concentrate of ferric oxide (rust), which can lead to big "red water" problems. Naturally, you will also get ferric nitrate solutions that can lead to major ecological problems also; therefore, look more into (red water problems) for a base that lowers high nitrogen levels that can be applied as a base chemical that will lower these levels. Otherwise, all receiving waters will appear red in color, and this can also cause high algae growth that can lead severe algae blooms, that can go septic or cause very bad odors. If, you are using steel pipe, cathodic protection and flushing lines, at regular intervals, is another helpful solution. Best regards, Timothy Rinard
the ground absorbs and treats pollution as the nitrate. principal the tool against this gence of pollution being the plant. the questions which arise on the expressed subject are the following ones: of or and which is emitted this pollution? most important, which are the quantities volumes? is it rough or associated with others polluting such as potash does nitrogen phosphate? in nature it is not too the pollution which it is necessary to look at but its production and the redundancy of its supply. which is the degree of its infiltration because automatically by taking account of all the precedent criteria it will join the water table like so precisely announced a comment
If this happens, it will be dangerous for soil, vegetation in land surface. Soil will be serious contamined and further influence vegetation and human.
Dear Goden , I will start comment wile I don't know where is the Source of the nitrate here ? is it from a manufacture waste or a Fertilizers add source , any how this will affect the Agricultural Soil in different ways 1/ This will Change the PH of the soil and affects all the Vegetation Cover growing at that place 2/ This also affect all the soil Micro-Organism through the changing the optimum habitat for it growing and development 3/ This will affect the Ion Exchange Capacity of the Soil , and then it will affect the active adsorption of minerals (micro) by the roots of Plants 4/ It will also affect water penetration through the Soil and and affect the field capacity of the soil. However the heavy contamination with such these alkaline or acidic base minerals salts will result in bad impact to the Soil that when it dissolved by Soil Water it Gives an active acids or alkaline ,and then it totally change the PH of the Soil , and change the chemicals and physical characteristic of the soil , and change the optimum natural habitat for both the Micro organism of the Soil and the Vegetation Covers that growing and depends on this Soil, Br, Hussein
Question: What happens when nitrate contaminated drainage water is diverted to soils with high iron content? Will it form ferric nitrate? If then, what are the dangers of ferric nitrate to ecology
Nitrates in water promotes nitrification where proteins in nitrates promotes the growth as it decomposed.Ferrous in soil will have another effect on its own and it varies with the type of crops that you planted in your soil(that is if you are referring to agricultural soils).
If your concern is the reaction once it gets in contact with each other, the resulting mixture will be the same as ferrous dont react with nitrates(please refer to emf series).Unless you specified the form of iron compound and the form of nitrate compound with its concentration then we can look at other compund that it can create. For now, a nitrate is a nitrate and a an iron is an iron in certain condition. No reaction.
ROLE OF IRON-RICH GEORGIA SOILS IN CONTROLLING NITRATE CONTAMINATION OF GROUND WATER
... nitrate reduction proceeds largely by oxidation of Fe2+ to an amorphous solid that subsequently recrystallizes to a meta-stable ferric hydroxide. https://smartech.gatech.edu/bitstream/handle/1853/48494/Endale_6.10.33.PDF