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Occurrence of Vanadium in Groundwater of Jeju Island, Korea

제주도 지하수 내 바나듐의 산출 특성

  • Hyun, Ik-Hyun (Research Institute of Health & Environment, Jeju Special-Governing Province) ;
  • Yun, Seong-Taek (Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences and KU-KIST Green School, Korea University) ;
  • Kim, Ho-Rim (Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences and KU-KIST Green School, Korea University) ;
  • Kam, Sang-Kyu (Department of Environmental Engineering, Jeju National University)
  • 현익현 (제주특별자치도 보건환경연구원) ;
  • 윤성택 (고려대학교 지구환경과학과 및 그린스쿨대학원) ;
  • 김호림 (고려대학교 지구환경과학과 및 그린스쿨대학원) ;
  • 감상규 (제주대학교 환경공학과)
  • Received : 2016.10.13
  • Accepted : 2016.10.17
  • Published : 2016.11.30
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Abstract

The aim of this study was to evaluate the occurrence of vanadium in Jeju Island groundwater, focusing on the spatio-temporal patterns and geochemical controlling factors of vanadium. For this, we collected two sets of groundwater data: 1) concentrations of major constituents of 2,595 groundwater samples between 2008 and 2014 and 2) 258 groundwater samples between December 2006 and June 2008. The concentrations of groundwater vanadium were in the range of $0.2{\sim}71.0{\mu}g/L$ (average, $12.0{\mu}g/L$) and showed local enrichments without temporal/seasonal variation. This indicated that vanadium distribution was controlled by 1) the geochemical/mineralogical composition and dissolution processes of original materials (i.e., volcanic rock) and 2) the flow and chemical properties of groundwater. Vanadium concentration was significantly positively correlated with that of major ions ($Cl^-$, $Na^+$, and $K^+$) and trace metals (As, Cr, and Al), and with pH, but was negatively correlated with $NO_3-N$ concentration. The high concentrations of vanadium (>$15{\mu}g/L$) occurred in typically alkaline groundwater with high pH (${\geq}8.0$), indicating that a higher degree of water-rock interaction resulted in vanadium enrichment. Thus, higher concentrations of vanadium occurred in groundwater of $Na-Ca-HCO_3$, $Na-Mg-HCO_3$ and $Na-HCO_3$ types and were remarkably lower in groundwater of $Na-Ca-NO_3$(Cl) type that represented the influences from anthropogenic pollution.

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