Coupled Electrokinetics-Adsorption Technique for Simultaneous Removal of Heavy Metals and Organics from Saline-Sodic Soil

Table 2

Modeling of Hg speciation using Visual MINTEQ 3.0 for EK-GAC-1.

Initial Hg species	Concentration, mol/L	Final Hg species	Concentration, mol/L	% Removed
Hg(OH)2 (aq)	4.30𝑒−04	Hg(OH)2 (aq)	3.98𝑒−04	92.49
Hg^+2	9.04𝑒−14	Hg^+2	1.73𝑒−22	1.91𝑒−07
Hg2OH^+3	4.23𝑒−22	Hg2OH^+3	4.03𝑒−35	9.53𝑒−12
Hg3(OH)3^+3	1.79𝑒−22	Hg3(OH)3^+3	3.77𝑒−35	2.11𝑒−11
HgOH^+	2.82𝑒−09	HgOH^+	1.11𝑒−13	3.93𝑒−03