TY - JOUR
T1 - Open-field experimentation of an innovative and integrated zeolitite cycle
T2 - project definition and material characterization
AU - Malferrari, Daniele
AU - Laurora, Angela
AU - Brigatti, Maria Franca
AU - Coltorti, Massimo
AU - Di Giuseppe, Dario
AU - Faccini, Barbara
AU - Passaglia, Elio
AU - Vezzalini, Maria Giovanna
PY - 2013/6
Y1 - 2013/6
N2 - This study is a part of the European LIFE +2010 Project "ZeoLIFE - Water pollution reduction and water saving using a natural zeolitite cycle". It characterizes the application of Italian zeolite-rich pyroclastic rocks (zeolitites) as soil conditioner. Laboratory experiments will be tested on an experimental field in the Codigoro area, Ferrara district (North-East Italy). The samples investigated are chabazite- and phillipsite-rich and are all collected in quarries from Central Italy: (1) Grosseto area (Sorano and Sovana); (2) Viterbo area (Farnese, Grotte Santo Stefano, Corchiano, Nepi), and (3) Rome area (Riano). All samples are characterized by more than 30 % of zeolite content, together with volcanic glass, feldspars, pyroxenes, and micas. The quantitative mineralogical characterization of soil samples from Codigoro shows variable proportions of quartz, illite, plagioclase, K-feldspar, calcite, dolomite, chlorite, serpentine, kaolinite, gypsum together with an amorphous residual. Collected data confirm that conditioning of soils with selected zeolitite can be extremely promising for a well evident improvement of the soil quality, and contribute to define a standard approach which can surely find a general application well above the boundaries of the selected area for the field test.
AB - This study is a part of the European LIFE +2010 Project "ZeoLIFE - Water pollution reduction and water saving using a natural zeolitite cycle". It characterizes the application of Italian zeolite-rich pyroclastic rocks (zeolitites) as soil conditioner. Laboratory experiments will be tested on an experimental field in the Codigoro area, Ferrara district (North-East Italy). The samples investigated are chabazite- and phillipsite-rich and are all collected in quarries from Central Italy: (1) Grosseto area (Sorano and Sovana); (2) Viterbo area (Farnese, Grotte Santo Stefano, Corchiano, Nepi), and (3) Rome area (Riano). All samples are characterized by more than 30 % of zeolite content, together with volcanic glass, feldspars, pyroxenes, and micas. The quantitative mineralogical characterization of soil samples from Codigoro shows variable proportions of quartz, illite, plagioclase, K-feldspar, calcite, dolomite, chlorite, serpentine, kaolinite, gypsum together with an amorphous residual. Collected data confirm that conditioning of soils with selected zeolitite can be extremely promising for a well evident improvement of the soil quality, and contribute to define a standard approach which can surely find a general application well above the boundaries of the selected area for the field test.
KW - Chabazite
KW - Soil amendment
KW - Soil mineralogical analysis
KW - Water saving
KW - Zeolitite
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84878711948&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s12210-013-0235-3
DO - 10.1007/s12210-013-0235-3
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84878711948
SN - 2037-4631
VL - 24
SP - 141
EP - 150
JO - Rendiconti Lincei
JF - Rendiconti Lincei
IS - 2
ER -