plant-aid remediation of hydrocarbon-contaminated sites

Plant-Aid Remediation of Hydrocarbon-Contaminated Sites

Phytoremediation is an emerging green technology that uses plants and their associated microbes to remediate different environments contaminated with various pollutants. Phytoremediation, as an effective soil remediation technology, has gained popularity in the past ten years both in developed and developing countries. The main goal of the current article is to improve the understanding of phyt...

Plant-Aid Remediation of Hydrocarbon-Contaminated Sites

Phytoremediation is an emerging green technology that uses plants and their associated microbes to remediate different environments contaminated with various pollutants. Phytoremediation, as an effective soil remediation technology, has gained popularity in the past ten years both in developed and developing countries. The main goal of the current article is to improve the understanding of phyt...

Remediation of Contaminated Sites

Oil pollution in the environment is now being taken seriously by the oil industries and as such, these companies are always looking for cost-effective methods of dealing with this pollution. The global environment is under great stress due to urbanization and industrialization as well as population pressure on the limited natural resources. The problems are compounded by drastic changes that ha...

In situ thermal remediation of contaminated sites

Contaminated Sites – Cases, Remediation, Risk and Policy

The contemporary scientific discussion regarding PCDD/PCDF sources focuses mainly on thermal emissions (e.g. waste incineration, sinter plants, secondary metal production etc.), however, the history of contamination with dioxins and dioxin-like chemicals is closely related to the chlorine industry and the production of chlorine and chlorinated organics and their application. While the majority ...

Persulfate Oxidation for the Remediation of Petroleum Hydrocarbon-Contaminated Soils

The feasibility of total petroleum hydrocarbon-contaminated (TPH) soil remediation was studied using persulfate oxidation. Factors tested included type of activator, persulfate concentration, number of persulfate applications, and reaction time. Probe chemicals were used to study effi ciency of the persulfate oxidation mechanism. The best activation method used Fe2+, which achieved 40.8% TPH de...