Prevention and Remediation of Petroleum Polluted Soil
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Science and Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 October 2023) | Viewed by 251
Special Issue Editors
Interests: bioremediation of petroleum contaminated soil; prevention and remediation of soil pollution in industrial and mining sites; solid waste disposal and recycling
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Crude oil is one of the most important sources of energy in the world. The surroundings are inevitably affected in oil exploration, transportation, and refining. Soil is an important resource for human survival and development. Human health is potentially at risk from dermal contact or ingestion of contaminated grains. Generally, petroleum-polluted soil can occur from many sources, such as oil spill, oily sewage for irrigating farmland, storage of oily slag and sludge without seepage control measures, atmospheric sedimentation, abuse of pesticides, preservatives and herbicides which choose oil substances as a solvent or emulsifier, and so on. Due to the harmfulness, hysteresis, and invisibility of petroleum-polluted soil, the exploration of prevention and remediation technology has been included in the long-term development plan of many developed countries in the world. The current remediation technology dealing mostly with a single substrate dismisses the complexity and potential interactions of different petroleum hydrocarbons. In addition, a combined systematic risk assessment and multi-technology are more promising in the coming years. Thus, a new green, low-energy, low-carbon approach is needed for the prevention and control of petroleum pollutants in soil, such as controllable bioremediation, phytoremediation, electrokinetic remediation, washing technologies, remediation mechanisms, molecular analysis, prospective enhanced methods, and ecological risk assessment, which are also important for integration of soil remediation technologies. Papers addressing these topics are invited to this Special Issue, and other innovative treatment methods and technologies on petroleum-polluted soil are also welcome to this issue.
Dr. Lin Li
Dr. Qiyou Liu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- petroleum hydrocarbons
- remediation technology
- soil
- degradation
- aged crude oil
- microorganism
- advanced oxidation
- desorption
- PAH (polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon)
- transformation
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