Determination, speciation and evaluation of bioavailability (transfers between water-soil-plant systems) of technologically critical elements (TCE)

• Grant number: 21/00572-0
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: October 01, 2021
• End date: November 30, 2023
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Chemistry - Analytical Chemistry
• Principal Investigator: Amauri Antonio Menegário
• Grantee: Amauri Antonio Menegário
• Host Institution: Centro de Estudos Ambientais (CEA). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Rio Claro. Rio Claro , SP, Brazil
• Associated researchers: Chang Hung Kiang ; Johanna Irrgeher ; Paul Nicholas Williams ; Simone Trimmel ; Thomas C. Meisel ; Thomas Prohaska
• Associated research grant(s): 22/00518-9 - Tracking ecosystem releases by oil and natural gas production with marine tetrapod, AP.R SPRINT

Abstract

Technologically critical elements (TCE) are a set of ultra-trace elements with the particularity of being scarce on the Earth's surface, but its use is increasing in modern technological applications due to their specific properties. These elements include the metals of the Platinum group, Rare Earths and others, like, Nb, Ta, Ge and Te. Due to its high demand in the fields of communication, transport and energy, TCE extractive production has recently grown by several orders of magnitude. This led to a growing interest in understanding its environmental and ecotoxicological behaviours and, consequently, to a demand for the development of appropriate analytical techniques for determining TCE. However, methods for determining, speciation and the bioavailability of these elements are scarce in literature until today. This impedes a consistent understanding of the biogeochemistry of these elements. In view of the situation exposed above, it is intended to establish and develop new methods for the determination, speciation and evaluation of the bioavailability of TCE in surface waters, plants and soils. For this, new methods will be developed based on techniques with inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry and diffusive gradients in thin films (with conventional and newly developed binding agents). The studies will be directed to three sites subjected to supposed TCE contamination: 1) The Corumbataí River basin (State of São Paulo) which is highly affected by the Santa Gertrudes ceramic industrial complex (the largest ceramic industrial pole in Latin America); 2) The Paraíba do Sul River in the Region close to São José dos Campos (SP), where there are companies of electronic devices that release treated effluents to these waters; 3) The Uranium mining complex INB (State of Minas Gerais, in the municipality of Caldas) with enriched soils in Ce, Nd, La, Th and Zr. The focus of the proposal is directed towards an innovative approach that can start a new line of research at CEA/UNESP and, possibly, in the State of São Paulo. In addition, despite being directed to areas in Brazil, the proposal has an international character, as it will include other researchers allocated outside of Brazil, mainly researchers from the Montanuniversität Leoben (Austria), experts in TCE. (AU)

Scientific publications

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(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

ELIAS, LUCAS PELLEGRINI; MENEGARIO, AMAURI ANTONIO; HERNANDEZ, AMAURIS HECHAVARRIA; EISMANN, CARLOS EDUARDO; MARTINS VIANA, JOSE LUCAS; PEDROBOM, JORGE HENRIQUE; DE OLIVEIRA JUNIOR, EDSON GERALDO; BARBIERO, LAURENT; FOSTIER, ANNE HELENE. In situ fractionation and redox speciation of arsenic in soda lakes of Nhecolandia (Pantanal, Brazil) using the diffusive gradients in thin films (DGT) technique. Chemosphere, v. 288, n. 2, FEB 2022. (16/14227-5, 18/17069-7, 19/18124-4, 21/00572-0)

LUKO-SULATO, KAREN; SULATO, EVERTON TIAGO; PODSCLAN, CAROLINE BARRADAS; DE SOUZA DE OLIVEIRA, LUCIA MARIA; MARQUES KABUKI, LAUREN NOZOMI; ROSOLEN, VANIA; MENEGARIO, AMAURI ANTONIO. Short-term arsenic mobilization, labilization, and microbiological aspects after gasoline and diesel addition in tropical soils. ENVIRONMENTAL GEOCHEMISTRY AND HEALTH, v. N/A, p. 14-pg., 2022-11-15. (21/00572-0)

CASTELLANO, GABRIEL RIBEIRO; SANTOS, LANDERLEI ALMEIDA; MENEGARIO, AMAURI ANTONIO. Carbon Soil Storage and Technologies to Increase Soil Carbon Stocks in the South American Savanna. SUSTAINABILITY, v. 14, n. 9, p. 22-pg., 2022-05-01. (21/00572-0)

GEMEINER, HENDRYK; MENEGARIO, AMAURI ANTONIO; EISMANN, CARLOS EDUARDO; ELIAS, LUCAS PELLEGRINI; PEDROBOM, JORGE HENRIQUE; DOURADO, THIAGO DE ARAUJO; CHANG, HUNG KIANG; DA CONCEICAO, FABIANO TOMAZINI; MORUZZI, RODRIGO BRAGA. Combining ultrafiltration and diffusive gradients in thin films techniques for speciation/fractionation of Cu and Zn in cytosol of liver of Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus). METALLOMICS, v. 15, n. 4, p. 8-pg., 2023-04-03. (21/00572-0)

GUILHERME S. LIMA; AMAURI A. MENEGARIO; EVERTON T. SULATO; JORGE H. PEDROBOM; JUAN P. TORRES-FLOREZ; MARCUS A. G. DE ARAÚJO JÚNIOR; ANDRÉ S. BARRETO. Mercury Concentration in Liver Tissues of South American Fur Seals (Arctocephalus australis) from Southwestern Atlantic Ocean. Journal of the Brazilian Chemical Society, v. 33, n. 11, p. 1309-1318, 2022-10-24. (21/00572-0)

SANTOS, CRISTIANE AILY; GEMEINER, HENDRYK; MENEGARIO, AMAURI ANTONIO; GALCERAN, JOSEP; TEIXEIRA ZANATTA, MELINA BORGES; CHANG, HUNG KIANG. A new approach to improve the accuracy of DGT (Diffusive Gradients in Thin-films) measurements in monitoring wells. Talanta, v. 238, n. 2, FEB 1 2022. (21/00572-0, 18/17069-7, 16/14227-5)

LIMA, GUILHERME DOS SANTOS; MENEGARIO, AMAURI ANTONIO; SUAREZ, CARLOS ALFREDO; KAMAZUKA, SILVIA HARUMI; GEMEINER, HENDRYK; SANCHEZ-SARMIENTO, ANGELICA MARIA; FERIOLI, RAQUEL BENETON; BARRETO, ANDRE SILVA. Pelagic and estuarine birds as sentinels of metal(loid)s in the South Atlantic Ocean: Ecological niches as main factors acting on bioaccumulation. Environmental Pollution, v. 326, p. 14-pg., 2023-03-27. (21/00572-0)