Etude de l’évolution des formes chimiques des métaux dans des sédiments marins dragués stockés à terre

Fabienne SEBY, Christelle BENOIT-BONNEMASON, Emmanuel TESSIER, Claude ALZIEU, Jean-Luc AQUA, Laurent SANNIER, Olivier F.X. DONARD

Résumé


Le stockage à terre des sédiments est un traitement qui a été envisagé dans le cadre du projet SEDI.MAR.D. 83 dans le but de diminuer la charge polluante des sédiments marins dragués. Ce traitement serait susceptible d’entraîner, par vieillissement naturel, des transformations physico-chimiques et/ou biologiques au sein de la matrice sédimentaire qui pourraient modifier sa toxicité. Ce travail a porté sur le devenir des métaux et de leurs formes chimiques lors du vieillissement des sédiments. Ce traitement permet d’abaisser la moitié de la concentration initiale du tributylétain (TBT) après deux mois d’entreposage. Cette dégradation du TBT au cours du temps de stockage à terre s’accompagne de la formation d’espèces de l’étain qui sont moins dangereuses. Pour l’arsenic, seules les formes inorganiques As(III) et As(V) ont été détectées. As(III) est la forme majoritaire dans le sédiment fraîchement dragué et s’oxyde en As(V) en fonction de la durée du traitement. Cette oxydation a également été observée pour le chrome, avec apparition de très faibles quantités de chrome hexavalent. En raison de sa grande toxicité, la formation du Cr(VI) est une limite au traitement étudié. Il semble donc préférable de considérer un temps de stockage à terre assez court de façon à dégrader le TBT tout en minimisant la formation de Cr(VI). Dans la mesure où aucun traitement vraiment efficace n’existe pour gérer les sédiments marins contaminés, cette étude montre que le stockage à terre peut être considéré comme une première approche peu coûteuse. Si le degré de pollution est suffisamment abaissé par ce procédé, il est ensuite possible d’envisager une valorisation de ces matériaux dans le domaine des travaux publics par exemple (remblais).


Translated version: Evolution of metals and their chemical forms in land-disposed dredged marine sediments

Land disposal is a treatment which has been considered in the framework of the SEDI.MAR.D. 83 project in order to decrease chemical contamination of dredged marine sediments. Natural aging could involve physico-chemical and/or biological transformations in the sediments resulting in a modification of its toxicity. This study was carried out to better understand the fate of metals and their chemical forms during this treatment. A degradation rate of 50% was observed after two months of land disposal for tributyltin (TBT) which is one of the most dangerous organotin compounds. This degradation is accompanied with the formation of less dangerous species such as dibutyltin and monobutyltin. For arsenic, only inorganic forms were identified (As(III) and As(V)) with a change in their distribution as a function of the time of land disposal. A decrease of As(III) in favour of As(V) with time was shown. This oxidation was also observed for chromium with the formation of small amounts of hexavalent chromium. Because of its high toxicity, the formation of Cr(VI) can limit the duration of land disposal. It seems therefore preferable to consider a short time of land disposal allowing degradation of TBT while minimizing Cr(VI) formation. As no really efficient treatment exists for the moment to manage contaminated dredged sediments, this study shows that land disposal could be considered as a first and non expensive approach. If the amount of contamination is sufficiently decreased by this process, it could be possible to consider sediment valorisation in the field of public works for example.

Keywords: Marine sediments; Treatments; Land disposal; Metals; Speciation analysis; SEDI.MAR.D. Projet.


Mots-clés


Sédiments marins; Traitements; Stockage à terre; Métaux; Spéciation; Projet SEDI.MAR.D. 83.

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