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141Zn(II) (Figure 9.8). With a higher affinity for goethite surfaces, Zn(II) competes withNi(II) in occupying sites available for both <str<strong>on</strong>g>metal</str<strong>on</strong>g>s. Ni(II) <strong>and</strong> Zn(II) competiti<strong>on</strong> waspredicted using both sets of parameters for Ni (pH 6.5 set) <strong>and</strong> Zn (pH 5.5 set) <strong>and</strong> resultswere within the data <strong>and</strong> model error (Figure 9.8), predicti<strong>on</strong>s were within the data error.Although SCMs have been employed to simulate multisolute <str<strong>on</strong>g>adsorpti<strong>on</strong></str<strong>on</strong>g>competiti<strong>on</strong>, success has been mixed. Using a generalized two-layer model, Ali <strong>and</strong>Dzombak (1996) predicted <str<strong>on</strong>g>adsorpti<strong>on</strong></str<strong>on</strong>g> of sulfate <strong>and</strong> organic acids reas<strong>on</strong>ably well based<strong>on</strong> single-adsorbate data over a wide range of c<strong>on</strong>diti<strong>on</strong>s. Underpredicti<strong>on</strong> for the weakeradsorbate was explained by adsorbate-specific surface site heterogeneity <strong>and</strong>/or byinaccurate representati<strong>on</strong> of Coulombic effects in the model. Gao <strong>and</strong> Mucci (2001)predicted the shape of the competitive <str<strong>on</strong>g>adsorpti<strong>on</strong></str<strong>on</strong>g> data for phosphate <strong>and</strong> arsenate <strong>on</strong>goethite, but failed to reproduce it quantitatively. Heidmann et al. (2005) were able topredict Cu <strong>and</strong> Pb competiti<strong>on</strong> <strong>on</strong> kaolinite successfully using the combinati<strong>on</strong> of a 1-pKBasic Stern model for edge sites <strong>and</strong> an extended Basic Stern model for face sites;nevertheless the surface complexes were simply assumpti<strong>on</strong>s without spectroscopicsupport. Hayes <strong>and</strong> Katz (1996) pointed out that n<strong>on</strong>-electrostatic, diffuse layer, <strong>and</strong>c<strong>on</strong>stant capacitance models are likely to be less successful in modeling competiti<strong>on</strong> data,because they do not account for differences in the affinity of inner- <strong>and</strong> outer-spherecomplexes. Christi <strong>and</strong> Kretzschmar (1999) dem<strong>on</strong>strated that surface site density is akey parameter in applying SCMs to multicomp<strong>on</strong>ent envir<strong>on</strong>ments <strong>and</strong> they obtained bestpredicti<strong>on</strong>s with site densities between 5 <strong>and</strong> 10 sites nm -2 for hematite. Palmqvist et al.(1999) showed that single-adsorbate modeling predicted <str<strong>on</strong>g>adsorpti<strong>on</strong></str<strong>on</strong>g> competiti<strong>on</strong> for Cu<strong>and</strong> Zn, but underestimated Pb(II) <str<strong>on</strong>g>adsorpti<strong>on</strong></str<strong>on</strong>g>. Both the TLM <strong>and</strong> NEM predicted Cd <strong>and</strong>

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