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Detection and behavior of iron-cyanide complexes in soils of a former Manufactured Gas Plant site
(2014)
In Germany, soil and groundwater atmore than a thousand sites are contaminatedwith ironcyanide complexes. These contaminations originate from the gas purification p process that was conducted inManufactured Gas Plants (MGP).There is a risk of human threat depending on the stability dissolved iron-cyanide complexes due to the potential release of toxic free cyanide, CN(aq) and HCN(g), (aq). The aim of this thesis was to evaluate a new method for the cyanide detection and to investigate the stability and retardation of the iron-cyanide complexes in soils by batch and column experiments in order to improve the knowledge concerning the fate of cyanide compounds in soil and groundwater. This study seeks for enhancing the efficiency of phytoremediation as a proper approach to decontaminate ironcyanides complexes and thus tries to make a contribution to environmental protection.