Petroleum contamination in groundwater/air and its effects on farmland soil in the outskirt of an industrial city in China

Zhang, Juan; Dai, Jing; Chen, Haorui; Du, Xiaoming; Wang, Wenxing; Wang, Renqing

doi:10.1016/j.gexplo.2012.04.002

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“…Numerous ecological disasters have been caused by undesirable petroleum products spills, for example [2]: spill in Spain; 2010 -the BP Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico, and regular petroleum leakages in the Niger Delta since 1958. Apart from financial losses, such incidents cause huge and sustained devastation in Earth's ecosystems and harm living organisms [3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]. These environmental disasters together with some local scale incidents seriously endanger the environment.…”

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Synthetic zeolites from fly ash as effective mineral sorbents for land-based petroleum spills cleanup

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Synthetic zeolites from fly ash as effective mineral sorbents for land-based petroleum spills cleanup

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“…After delineating and expressing the type and extent of contaminated soil and also finding out the methods to quantify the petroleum substances (Gan et al, 2009;Liu et al, 2011;Zhang et al, 2012;Abdullah et al, 2014;Pinedo et al, 2014;Potashev et al, 2014;Zhang et al, 2014;Wolejko et al, 2016), the subjected soil should be characterized as the first step in planning remediation strategies (Mao et al, 2009). This step includes testing and analyzing soil physical, chemical and biological characteristics.…”

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Importance of soil physical characteristics for petroleum hydrocarbons phytoremediation: A review

Hajabbasi¹

2016

Afr. J. Environ. Sci. Technol.

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Petroleum and petrochemical hydrocarbons for some places are serious sources of environmental pollutants. To remediate these contaminants, phytoremediation, a relatively low cost and an environmental friendly technique is recommended more widely, now more than ever. Successful and effective applying of hydrocarbons phytoremediation depends mainly on the soil and plant types and conditions and microbial activities and the interactions between these three factors. Although for the last several decades, various plant and organism's species for the phytoremediation processes have been extensively studied, evaluating and characterizing soil properties, as an important objective for sustainable remediation and land use management, which had negligible considerations. An ideal soil for phytoremediation should have proper physical, chemical and biological characteristics to let the plant grow well and produce biomass as high as possible. It also should provide favorable conditions for microbial activities to perform efficient remediation. Soil physical characteristics such as texture, structure, water status and aeration are important factors affecting the microbial activities and consequently the degree of remediation potential. A better understanding of soil physical properties in conjunction with proper soil-plant-microbe management could be exploited to enhance the remediation of hydrocarbon contaminated soils and thus sustainable healthy environment.

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“…In the northeastern parts, the main contaminants are nitrogen, volatile phenols, and petroleum pollutants, which are often released by heavy industry and oil exploration282930. In Northern China, the main contaminants exceeding the standards are N, Fe, Mn, and petroleum pollutants3132333435, whereas pollutants in northwestern China are dominated by N, Cr, and Pb3637. The groundwater is generally high-quality in the southwestern parts, but is sometimes excessively contaminated by Fe, Mn, and volatile phenols3839.…”

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Identification of dominating factors affecting vadose zone vulnerability by a simulation method

Wutian

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The characteristics of vadose zone vulnerability dominating factors (VDFs) are closely related to the migration and transformation mechanisms of contaminants in the vadose zone, which directly affect the state of the contaminants percolating to the groundwater. This study analyzes the hydrogeological profile of the pore water regions in the vadose zone, and conceptualizes the vadose zone as single lithologic, double lithologic, or multi lithologic. To accurately determine how the location of the pollution source influences the groundwater, we classify the permeabilities (thicknesses) of different media into clay-layer and non-clay-layer permeabilities (thicknesses), and introduce the maximum pollution thickness. Meanwhile, the physicochemical reactions of the contaminants in the vadose zone are represented by the soil adsorption and soil degradability. The VDFs are determined from the factors and parameters in groundwater vulnerability assessment. The VDFs are identified and sequenced in simulations and a sensitivity analysis. When applied to three polluted sites in China, the method improved the weighting of factors in groundwater vulnerability assessment, and increased the reliability of predicting groundwater vulnerability to contaminants.

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Petroleum contamination in groundwater/air and its effects on farmland soil in the outskirt of an industrial city in China

Cited by 23 publications

References 46 publications

Synthetic zeolites from fly ash as effective mineral sorbents for land-based petroleum spills cleanup

Synthetic zeolites from fly ash as effective mineral sorbents for land-based petroleum spills cleanup

Importance of soil physical characteristics for petroleum hydrocarbons phytoremediation: A review

Identification of dominating factors affecting vadose zone vulnerability by a simulation method

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