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27 September 2021
Dear Editor of Land
Degradation & Development :
Please consider our manuscript “Application of a Vertical
“Electric Sieve” to Mitigate and Prevent Salinization in Coastal
Soil ” for publication in the Land Degradation & Development.
Soil salinization is a key soil degradation factor in the worldwide,
especially in the coastal areas. In coastal areas, landscaping is
enormously restricted due to its higher soil salinity, and this low
vegetation cover in coastal areas could lead to a fragile ecosystem for
coastal saline land. Therefore, to find an effective and economic salt
controlling technology for this kind soil with low permeability porous
media is a challenge, where re-salinization is easily happened because
of the continuous supplement of salts from the shallow saline phreatic
water and sea.
In this study, a Vertical Electrokinetic system (V-EK) with multilayer
electrodes was considered as an “Electric Sieve” were proposed to
mitigate and prevent the surface soil salinization caused by salts
rising from shallow groundwater in coastal area were explored. Different
to the traditional perspective of saline soil restoration that used the
horizontal electrical field configurations to transfer contaminants to
both side of electrodes in combination with the saturated water
conditions or irrigation, we focus on the mitigation and inhibition of
the salt rising from shallow groundwater by the vertical EK system with
multilayer electrodes, which could be considered as an “Electric
Sieve”. The results showed that different salts rising from shallow
groundwater were effective inhibited under the V-EK system. Moreover, it
will be energy saved if the power was produced by solar.
The total word count of this manuscript (excluding references) is 4624
words, and the five suggested referees are list below:
Prof. Zhiyong Jason Ren, Princeton University, Email:zjren@princeton.edu
Prof. Patricia J.S. Colberg, University of Idaho,colberg@uidaho.edu
Prof. Qiang Xue, China University of Geosciences (Beijing),xueqiang@cugb.edu.cn
Dr. Hongwen Yu, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology,
Chinese Academy of Sciences,yuhw@iga.ac.cn
Dr. Ahmed Abou-Shady, Water Resources and Desert Soils Division, Desert
Research Center,shady_desert@yahoo.com
We believe this work meets the requirements for publication inLand Degradation & Development. Your careful consideration of
this manuscript is greatly appreciated. Please feel free to contact me
if there are any questions.
Yours sincerely,