a new high-pressure squeezing technique for pore fluid extraction from terrestrial soils

Böttcher, Gerd; Brumsack, Hans-J.; Heinrichs, H.; Pohlmann, Markus

a new high-pressure squeezing technique for pore fluid extraction from terrestrial soils

1997

Böttcher, Gerd | Brumsack, Hans-J. | Heinrichs, H. (Hartmut) | Pohlmann, Markus

A new plastic-lined high-pressure squeezing device has been developed for the extraction of soil pore solutions. At a maximum pressure of 1100 kg cm⁻² the water recovery ranged between 30 and 55% of the total water content. Pressure dependent squeezing experiments showed a general increase in Si, Mn, Mg, Ca, K, Na, Al, Fe, Cd, and Zn concentrations with progressive pore water extraction and increasing pressure, indicating that micro pore solutes have the highest concentrations of solutes. Soil samples with moisture contents of more than about 15% generally provided enough water for major and trace element analyses. The data do not reveal any contamination of the pore fluids from the squeezing device. An advantage of this method is that the solution could be closely related to a specific soil horizon on a cm scale and also to the time of sampling. A further application of this squeezing method is the possibility of pressure dependent sequential squeezing to obtain fluids from different pore spaces.

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