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In-Situ Remediation Approaches for the Management of Contaminated Sites: A Comprehensive Overview
Though several in-situ treatment methods exist to remediate polluted sites, selecting an appropriate site-specific remediation technology is...
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Assessing the applicability of phytoremediation of soils with mixed organic and heavy metal contaminants
Soil pollution is a major environmental problem and many contaminated sites are tainted with a mixture of organic and heavy metal contaminants....
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Decontaminating soil organic pollutants with manufactured nanoparticles
Organic pollutants in soils might threaten the environmental and human health. Manufactured nanoparticles are capable to reduce this risk efficiently...
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Partitioning of Aromatic Constituents into Water from Jet Fuels
A comprehensive study of the most commonly used jet fuels (i.e., Jet A-1 and JP-8) was performed to properly assess potential contamination of the...
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Non-aqueous phase liquid-contaminated soil remediation by ex situ dielectric barrier discharge plasma
Non-thermal dielectric barrier discharge plasma is examined as a method for the ex situ remediation of non-aqueous phase liquid (NAPL)-contaminated...
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Probabilistic risk assessment of contaminant transport in groundwater and vapour intrusion following remediation of a contaminant source
Community-scale simulations were performed to investigate the risk to groundwater and indoor air receptors downgradient of a contaminated site...
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Response of the microbial community to seasonal groundwater level fluctuations in petroleum hydrocarbon-contaminated groundwater
The effects of seasonal groundwater level fluctuations on the contamination characteristics of total petroleum hydrocarbons (TPH) in soils,...
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NAPL migration and ecotoxicity of conventional and renewable fuels in accidental spill scenarios
Fuels derived from non-petroleum renewable resources have raised interest due to their potential in replacing petroleum-based fuels, but information...
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Prospective Environmental Risk Assessment for Sediment-Bound Organic Chemicals: A Proposal for Tiered Effect Assessment
A broadly accepted framework for prospective environmental risk assessment (ERA) of sediment-bound organic chemicals is currently lacking. Such a...
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Inorganic contaminants from diffuse pollution in shallow groundwater of the Campanian Plain (Southern Italy). Implications for geochemical survey
The Campanian Plain (CP) shallow aquifer (Southern Italy) represents a natural laboratory to validate geochemical methods for differentiating diffuse...
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Modeling solute/contaminant transport in heterogeneous aquifers
A fissured aquifer may be considered as a dense network of fissures separated by low permeability matrix blocks. A conceptual modeling of such a...
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Remediation of LNAPL Contaminated Groundwater Using Plant-Assisted Biostimulation and Bioaugmentation Methods
Different cases of bioremediation technique were experimentally investigated here for decontaminating light non-aqueous phase liquid (LNAPL)-polluted...
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Surfactant And Cosolvent Flushing
When properly implemented, surfactant and cosolvent flushing technologies can recover substantial quantities of contaminant mass from chlorinated...
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Controlling microbiological interfacial behaviors of hydrophobic organic compounds by surfactants in biodegradation process
Bioremediation of hydrophobic organic compounds (HOCs) contaminated soils involves several physicochemical and microbiological interfacial processes...
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Cap** for Remediation of Contaminated Sediments
The historical release of contaminants into the environment has generated a legacy of contaminated sites throughout the world. For years, the...
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Evaluation of Surfactant-Enhanced In Situ Chemical Oxidation (S-ISCO) in Contaminated Soil
This work evaluated surfactant-enhanced in situ chemical oxidation (S-ISCO) in a hydrocarbon-contaminated soil. Surfactants and efficacy of oxidant...
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IN SITU Chemical Oxidation
This chapter presents a technology description of in situ chemical oxidation (ISCO) and discusses the key concepts associated with its use for...
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In situ sensing of subsurface contamination—part I: near-infrared spectral characterization of alkanes, aromatics, and chlorinated hydrocarbons
There is an imperative need for a chemical sensor capable of remote, in situ, long-term monitoring of chemical species at sites containing toxic...
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An initial study on soil wettability effects during entrapped LNAPL removal by surfactant flooding in coarse-grained sand media
PurposeNon-ideal or fractional wettability conditions may exist at field sites. It was hypothesized that fractional wettability could cause larger...
