Journal of Water Resource and Protection
Vol.07 No.05(2015), Article ID:55030,8 pages
10.4236/jwarp.2015.75031

Impact of Water Chemistry on Lead Carbonate Dissolution in Drinking Water Distribution Systems

Maryam Mohammadzadeh1, Onita D. Basu1*, Jose E. Herrera2

1Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

2Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Western University, London, Canada

Email: *Onita.basu@carleton.ca

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Received 1 December 2015; accepted 23 March 2015; published 25 March 2015

ABSTRACT

Elemental lead is a known toxic metal that can pose threats to human health and can be found in a variety of sources including drinking water at very low level concentrations (i.e. µg/L range). Destabilization of the corrosion scale at the inner layer of pipeline is the major source of lead in drinking water. Chemical properties of the water passing through the distribution system such as pH, alkalinity, chlorine content, oxidation reduction potential (ORP) and natural organic matters will affect the formation and/or destabilization of the corrosion scale. This research examines the impact of pH values (7.0 - 9.5), temperatures (5˚C vs 20˚C) and alkalinity levels (moderate vs low), in the presence of chlorine, on dissolution of hydrocerussite and cerussite in drinking water by various sets of batch dissolution experiments. The results showed dissolution of cerussite and hydrocerussite was not impacted significantly by pH ranging 7.0 - 9.5. In addition, and somewhat surprisingly, cold temperature (5˚C) and moderate alkalinity showed a great influence on decreas- ing the solubility of lead species.

Keywords:

Hydrocerussite, Cerussite, Lead Dissolution, Cold Temperature

1. Introduction

Elemental lead is a known toxic metal that can pose threats to human health and can be found in a variety of sources including lead paints, dust, municipal waste incineration, mining activities, gasoline additives and drinking water [1] -[4] . Lead is a known carcinogen which can lead to serious health problems such as: disruption of kidney function, interfering in synthesis of haemoglobin, interruption in immune system and miscarriages [5] [6] .

In particular, its impact on children’s neurobehavioral and intelligence development, brain cell function and learning abilities has been shown in numerous studies [7] -[11] . Although children’s average blood lead level (BLL) in many countries and areas such as United States, Mexico, Australia, Ecuador and Taiwan has generally been decreasing over the last three decades, lead poisoning in children is still of great concern [12] -[16] .

According to the drinking water quality guideline published by the World Health Organization (WHO), the recommended provisional limit of lead in drinking water is 10 µg/L (ppb). This limit is adopted as the drinking water standard in many countries including Canada, Australia, China and European Union, while in United States the guideline value is 15 µg/L [17] -[21] . Dissolution of lead in drinking water, also known as plumbosolvency, is mainly because of lead containing materials used in water distribution systems and household plumbing, which is influenced by various water quality characteristics. Existing corrosion scales in lead pipes, solders, brass fittings and plumbing fixtures used in drinking water distribution systems are currently considered as a major problem for municipalities [9] [22] [23] . Destabilization of the corrosion scale in the distribution systems is the main source of lead in drinking water. X-ray diffraction (XRD) results of pipes collected from distribution system in City of London, Ontario, Canada by Kim and Herrera [22] have shown the main lead solid phase in the corrosion scale is hydrocerussite (Pb3(CO3)2(OH)2). Additionally, in few cases cerussite (PbCO3) was also observed. Lead oxides such as plattnerite (PbO2) and minium (Pb3O4) can also be found in the inner layers of the corrosion scale. However, these species are more stable and tend to not dissolve [22] [24] . The corrosion scale can decrease the lead level in drinking water via a passivating layer, which can also trap toxic elements and decrease their concentration in drinking water as well.

Chemical properties of the water passing through the distribution system such as pH, alkalinity, chlorine content, oxidation reduction potential (ORP) and natural organic matters will affect the formation or destabilization of the corrosion scale. Temperature can also affect the stability of corrosion scales [1] [22] [23] . Numerous studies have shown the importance of the water pH in controlling the stability of the corrosion scale. For instance, at pH values less than 7.0, the corrosivity of water is very high and lead concentrations will increase significantly. However, pH effects can be mitigated by presence of alkalinity. In higher value of alkalinity, lead complexes formed with hydroxide and carbonate ions are insoluble and this greatly slows down the kinetics of lead dissolution [22] [23] . Free chlorine, HOCl and OCl, a common disinfectant used in distribution systems, provides a high ORP that has been found to lead to the formation of insoluble solid phases such as PbO2 and preventing the dissolution of lead species [20] [25] .

So far, researches have primarily focused on the effect of the pH at 20˚C (i.e. [1] [24] [26] ) and there is no research conducted at cold temperature (5˚C). Since there are countries such as Canada experiencing cold temperature about 6 months per year, it is important to investigate the influence of cold temperature on lead dissolution. Therefore, the objective of this paper is to explore the effects of different temperature conditions (20˚C vs. 5˚C) on dissolution of hydrocerussite and cerussite in drinking water at bench scale under various pH and alkalinity (moderate vs. low) conditions.

2. Materials and Methods

Based on studies showing that hydrocerussite (Pb3(CO3)2(OH)2) and cerussite (PbCO3) are widely observed in the corrosion scale [22] [26] , batch dissolution experiments were conducted using pure hydrocerussite and cerussite solids to investigate the lead solubility under different pH values (7.0, 8.0 and 9.5) and temperature conditions (20˚C and 5˚C). An environmental chamber was utilized for temperature control of the 5˚C experiments. Trace element grade chemicals and plastic wares were utilized to avoid cross contamination. Batch dissolution experiments were started by adding 0.3 g of either hydrocerussite (Aldrich, 99.44%) or cerussite (Aldrich, 99.99%) to 300 ml sealed polypropylene bottles then filled with solutions. Solutions contained 0.1 M NaNO3 (Aldrich, 99.995%, trace element basis), 20 mg C/L of dissolved inorganic carbon (CaCO3 or NaHCO3 (Sigma-Aldrich, ACS reagent) and 1 mg/L Cl2 (NaHClO, Aldrich, reagent grade). Solution pH values were adjusted by adding either 2% HNO3 (Fischer Scientific, trace metal analysis) or 1 M NaOH (Sigma-Aldrich, ACS reagent). The solutions were unbuffered. The bottles filled with solutions with no head space were set up on a shaker (VWR, DS-500E) at 170 rpm and continuously mixed throughout the experiment. A 12 ml Luer Lock syringe (Henkle Sass Wolf) was used for sample collection. Duplicate samples were collected from each bottle and each sample was analyzed in triplicate. Collected samples were 10 ml in volume and filtered through a 0.2 µm membrane filter (VWR, polyethersulfone membrane) with the initial 2 ml discarded and the remainder collected in a 15 ml centrifuge vial (Diamed, polypropylene). The collected filtrate was acidified with 150 µl of 2% HNO3. Vials were stored in at 4˚C until analyzed with inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) (Agilent Technologies 7700x) or inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry (ICP-OES) (VarianVista-PRO CCD Simultaneous ICP-OES) for lead concentration. For ICP-MS analysis, samples were diluted 5 times with 2% HNO3 prior to analysis and for ICP-OES samples were nitrified with 1 ml 70% HNO3 without any dilution. The remainder of the batch solutions was used for measuring free chlorine and pH. Free chlorine and pH were measured respectively with HACH spectrometer (DR 2800) by USEPA DPD method 8021 and HACH pH meter (HQ 40d).

Experiments

Temperature and pH: Experiments were conducted at 20˚C and 5˚C for cerussite and hydrocerussite over a range of pH values (7.0, 8.0 and 9.5) and in the presence of 140 mg/L NaHCO3 as dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) which provides moderate alkalinity in the solutions. Free chlorine, pH and dissolved lead were measured at regular time intervals starting at 15 minutes with the experiments lasting up to 45 days.

Alkalinity: To investigate the possible interference of alkalinity level on lead solubility, a set of experiments was carried out for cerussite and hydrocerussite at pH 8.0 with two different DIC sources (NaHCO3 versus CaCO3) at 20˚C versus 5˚C. 140 mg/L of NaHCO3 was added to the solutions that was equal to 20 mg C/L and provided moderate alkalinity in the solutions. For low alkalinity solutions, 75 mg/L of CaCO3 was added to the solutions to control alkalinity of solutions in low level because solubility of CaCO3 is low and the excess amount of CaCO3 will precipitate.

Free chlorine, pH and dissolved lead were measured at regular time intervals up to 45 days. Table 1 shows a summary of the experimental conditions examined in this research.

3. Results and Discussion

3.1. Temperature and pH Experiments

The impact of temperature and pH were studied on the dissolution of cerussite and hydrocerussite which were widely seen in corrosion scale. Batch dissolution experiments were conducted for pH 7.0, 8.0 and 9.5 at 20˚C and 5˚C. The average values for the respective dissolved lead species are presented in Figure 1.

Comparing Figure 1(a) (20˚C) and Figure 1(b) (5˚C), it can be observed that the dissolution of lead species is mainly dependent on the temperature while pH ranging from 7.0 to 9.5 does not show a significant role. Kim et al. [1] observed similar results for pH ranging from 8.0 to 10.0. Comparing results in different temperatures for both cerussite and hydrocerussite, lead solubility was about 70 - 80 µg/L average at 20˚C versus 50 µg/L average at 5˚C. Xie and Giammar [27] conducted a research at 20˚C on dissolution of plattnerite in different pH values ranged from 7.5 to 10. The lead concentration showed a significant drop after the initial period and then fluctuated around 50 µg/L. That proves the fact hydrocerussite and cerussite are more soluble than plattnerite.

Table 1. Lead dissolution experiments with different temperatures, pH values and alkalinity levels.

Figure 1. Dissolved lead concentration for cerussite and hydrocerussite at (a) 20˚C and (b) 5˚C at various pH values (C represents cerussite and HC represents hydrocerussite).

The dissolved lead concentrations for both cerussite and hydrocerussite at all pH values at 20˚C (Figure 1(a)) decreased within the first 24 h and then remained relatively constant for 45 days. In contrast, for the 5˚C experiments (Figure 1(b)) dissolved lead concentrations from both cerussite and hydrocerussite at all pH values fluctuated over the 45 days. Kim and Herrera [22] hypothesized the transformation of lead carbonate species. According to Reaction (1), hydrocerussite and cerussite can transform to each other. The fluctuation may be the result of frequent transformation or impact of temperature on kinetics of the reaction.

(1)

Although a large impact of pH has been observed on plattnerite (PbO2) solubility [24] , this study found that for cerussite and hydrocerussite the dissolution trends were similar at all pH values studied, which is consistent with the results obtained for the dissolution rate of hydrocerussite by Noel et al. [26] . The study by Liu et al. [28] showed the reaction of cerussite with chlorine was very slow. This means the transformation of cerussite to plattnerite was very slow, which can explain the high concentration of cerussite before 15 days shown in Figure 1(b).

At both 20˚C and 5˚C, the solubility of cerussite decreased as pH increased, while the solubility of hydrocerussite had almost no difference between pH 7.0 and pH 8.0 but increased at pH 9.5. The final lead dissolution for both cerussite and hydrocerussite are summarized in Table 2. Hydrocerussite demonstrated a lower solubility at lower temperature; however, cerussite exhibited a higher solubility which is not expected.

At 20˚C, cerussite was less soluble than hydrocerussite at all pH levels which was in agreement with other researchers [22] [24] . On the contrary, at 5˚C cerussite showed higher solubility than hydrocerussite. These findings that showed cerussite and hydrocerussite had different dissolving behavior in different temperature may be of significance as it would imply that distribution systems with cerussite may experience higher than anticipated lead dissolution during cold time frames. To date, limited tests have been conducted at 5˚C thus more research at 5˚C is recommended.

3.2. Alkalinity Experiments

Carbonate alkalinity (DIC) as a water quality parameter can limit corrosion scale destabilization and lead dissolution [24] . The impact of alkalinity level was investigated on the lead solubility at pH 8.0 at different temperatures, and the results are shown in Figure 2. Comparing the same solutions at different temperatures; lower temperature significantly decreased the lead dissolution (average 75 µg/L at 20˚C vs. average 50 µg/L at 5˚C).

Final lead dissolution results at 45 days for cerussite and hydrocerussite at pH 8.0 at 20˚C and 5˚C are shown in Table 3. It was observed that different alkalinity level impacted differently on the solubility of hydrocerussite and cerussite. At 20˚C, regardless of lead species, NaHCO3 which indicates moderate alkalinity resulted in less lead dissolution than CaCO3 which indicates low alkalinity (95.17 µg/L for cerrusite and 96.01 µg/L for hydrocerussite). Further, at 20˚C hydrocerussite dissolution is higher than cerussite, which is in agreement with the results obtained in Section 3.1 for 20˚C experiments.

At 5˚C, similar to results from Section 3.1 has much more fluctuation in the data. In the low alkalinity condition, the solubility of hydrocerussite (62.07 µg/L) was more than cerussite (52.03 µg/L). However, in moderate

Table 2. Final dissolved lead after 45 days for cerussite and hydrocerussite with moderate alkalinity at various pH values.

Table 3. Final dissolved lead after 45 days for cerussite and hydrocerussite at pH 8.0 with different alkalinity levels.

Figure 2. Effect of alkalinity on lead solubility for cerussite and hydrocerussite at (a) 20˚C and (b) 5˚C. NaHCO3 indicates moderate alkalinity and CaCO3 indicates low alkalinity.

alkalinity condition, cerussite (75.87 µg/L) showed more solubility than hydrocerussite (53.20 µg/L), which was in agreement with the results obtained in Section 3.1 for 5˚C experiments. These results clearly demonstrated lead dissolution impacted by level of alkalinity.

3.3. Role of Free Chlorine

Changes in water treatment processes will result in different water chemistry and ultimately influence the solubility of the existing lead species in corrosion scale. Using chlorine as disinfectant will result in the formation of disinfection by products (DBPs). To avoid DBPs, some treatment plants changed the disinfectant from free chlorine to monochloramine which resulted to higher lead dissolution [24] [29] . The higher solubility of lead in such drinking water is due to the lower oxidation reduction potential (ORP) of monochloramine which favors the formation of hydrocerussite [22] [30] .

Hydrocerussite and cerussite are the most soluble lead components in the corrosion scale. For that reason to decrease lead dissolution in drinking water, these two species have to be transformed to low soluble PbO2. Facilitating the formation of PbO2 requires free chlorine which can raise the redox potential while chloramines cannot provide such a high oxidative condition [22] [24] [27] .

The transformation process of lead carbonates to lead oxides is as follows: Hydrocerussite à Cerussite à Plattnerite à Scrutinyite [22] .

As mentioned in Section 3.1, the overall reactions occur in corrosion scale hypothesized by Kim and Herrera [22] :

(1)

(2)

(3)

In this study the initial concentration of free chlorine was 1 mg/L. Chlorine was consumed to oxidize lead (II) to lead (IV) and reduce the lead solubility. At 20˚C experiments (Figure 1(a) and Figure 2(a)), regardless of DIC, chlorine concentration reduced to 0.5 mg/L or less by day 5. From day 0 to day 5, large changes in lead level was observed, however, once the chlorine level decreased to less than 0.5 mg/L the change in lead concentration decreased significantly. This result is expected because decay of chlorine at 20˚C occurs relatively fast.

At 5˚C (Figure 1(b)), at moderate alkalinity, free chlorine was more than 0.5 mg/L till day 30 for hydrocerussite and day 20 for cerussite which is in general agreement with the lead dissolution results that show higher lead concentration for cerussite at day 45 rather than hydrocerussite at day 45. Figure 3 shows free chlorine concentration during the experiment for pH 8.0 and moderate alkalinity.

Figure 3. Free chlorine concentration during 45 days of experiment at 5˚C and 20˚C, with pH 8.0 and moderate alkalinity.

At 5˚C, at low alkalinity, free chlorine was above 0.5 mg/L up to day 15 for both cerussite and hydrocerussite. Interestingly after day 15, hydrocerussite solubility increased significantly but cerussite solubility did not. This would indicate that there were mechanistic differences in dissolution of lead when exposed to different levels of alkalinity.

4. Conclusions

Cerussite and hydrocerussite as the major lead species in distribution systems were used in this project to investigate lead dissolution at various temperature and pH. The impact of free chlorine and alkalinity on lead solubility was studied as well. Bench-scale experiments were conducted and the following are the conclusions:

・ Cerussite and hydrocerussite solubility somewhat surprisingly were not impacted significantly by pH value ranging from 7.0 to 9.5. However, there were clear impact associated with temperature and alkalinity level on cerussite and hydrocerussite dissolution and can be considered as good predictors for dissolution.

・ As expected, lower dissolution for hydrocerussite was observed at 5˚C rather than 20˚C.

・ Considering the effect of alkalinity and temperature, at both 20˚C and 5˚C, low alkalinity resulted in higher dissolution of cerussite and hydrocerussite.

・ Hydrocerussite was always found to be more soluble at low alkalinity regardless of temperature.

・ Mix results were found with moderate alkalinity. At 20˚C, hydrocerussite was more soluble than cerussite, whereas at 5˚C cerussite was more soluble than hydrocerussite.

Acknowledgements

This work was part of a collaborative project between Carleton University and Western University that was funded by Canadian Water Network. We are grateful for the advice of Dr. Nimal De Silva (Ottawa University, Canada) on ICP analysis and for the assistance of Dr. Marie Tudoret, Miaoyi Yan from Carleton University, Canada and Dr. Claire Robinson, Caitlin Kushnir and Daoping Guo from Western University, Canada.

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