contaminated soil analysis Articles

Fighting soil contamination with XRF

Soil contamination Complying with new environmental regulations is a fast growing concern for companies and local officials tasked with ensuring that industries reduce pollution and clean up after themselves. It’s a particularly challenging issue when it comes to soil contamination It’s not always easy to detect as it silently contaminates crops and the ground water supply. XRF ...

Feb. 4, 2018

By Hitachi High-Tech Analytical Science Ltd.

Bioremediating Explosives Contaminated Soil

From the beginning of World War II until the 1970s, the site that is now the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Crane, Indiana (NSWC-Crane) was the home of a major bomb manufacturing operation. Explosive compounds such as TNT, Royal Demolition Explosives (RDX) and Her Majesty’s Explosive (HMX) were handled loose and drifted through air vents. Often, the material settled on the roofs of buildings, ...

Dec. 31, 1998

By BioCycle Magazine

Database analysis of US state regulatory guidance for organic surface soil contamination

This manuscript describes a database of US state regulatory guidance values assembled to examine the guidance applied to the most commonly regulated surface soil contaminants. Guidance values were identified for 994 different contaminants, but there is considerable variability in the number of contaminants regulated by each state and in the values applied to contaminants. Guidance values for the ...

Mar. 4, 2010

By Inderscience Publishers

Contaminated soils and sludge treatment plant - Case Study

Client: Ecosistem Group, Lamezia Terme (CZ) – Italy Challenge: to transform waste into product! The Client possesses a large plant for the treatment of products contaminated with hazardous substances and materials, recycling of recovered materials and disposal of non-recyclable waste, which is considered highly ...

Jul. 23, 2017

By Baioni Crushing Plants Spa

Content Analysis of Toxic Elements in Soil by Simultaneous ICP

Contaminated soil not only leads to contamination of untreated drinking water through permeation into river water and rainwater, it adversely affects health when the soil itself is directly ingested as a child puts the ground into a stoma into a play etc. Therefore, assessment of soil toxicity using a defined method is required. I In Japan, the Soil ...

Nov. 10, 2015

By Shimadzu Scientific Instruments Inc

University of Southampton, Heavy Metal Contamination in Soils– Case Study

Project Highlights Over the last 15 years, Envirochem have for-filled the role of environmental consultant analysts to the University of Southampton. During a period of significant redevelopment, Envirochem has assisted with a whole range of projects supplying an exhaustive range of asbestos related services, chemical sampling and ...

Aug. 12, 2015

By Envirochem Analytical Laboratories LTD

Validation of a New Method for Screening Soil and Water for TCE Contamination

INTRODUCTION ASTM Method D 7203-06, Standard Test Method for Screening Trichloroethylene (TCE)-Contaminated Media Using a Heated Diode Sensor, (ASTM 2006) can be used to screen a sample of soil or water known to contain the halogenated volatile organic compound (HVOC) TCE. The method calls for measuring the TCE concentration in the headspace above the sample using a heated diode sensor ...

Feb. 28, 2007

By Western Research Institute (WRI)

Soil Flushing

Introduction In situ soil flushing is the extraction of contaminants from the soil with water or other suitable aqueous solutions. Soil flushing is accomplished by passing the extraction fluid through in-place soils using an injection or infiltration process. Extraction fluids must be recovered from the underlying aquifer and, when possible, they are recycled. Cosolvent Enhancement Cosolvent ...

Dec. 31, 1996

By Federal Remediation Technologies Roundtable

Detection of petroleum-contaminated soils using Equilibrium Headspace and Methanol Extraction

Petroleum spills and leaking underground storage tanks comprise a significant portion of remediation projects. Soil removal and disposal determined based on the contaminants and concentrations present. Specific target analytes are associated with this type of contamination. A number of these compounds are classified as volatile organics and are used to assess the severity of the contamination, ...

Oct. 27, 2011

By PerkinElmer, Inc.

Metabolomic analysis of soil communities can be used for pollution assessment

Here we show that metabolic profiling can be used to assess the changes in biochemical profiles of soil communities living in contaminated sites. We propose the term ‘community metabolomics’ for the application of metabolomics techniques to the study of the entire community of a soil sample. We anticipate our study to be a starting point for the use of this technique to assess how communities ...

Oct. 8, 2013

By John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Contamination at ANA Shipyard

ANA Shipyard is located on Elizabeth river and during additional construction work, it was discovered that the ground water was contaminated with free product due to soil contaminated with a mixture of oils and greases. Excavation of soil and replacement with clean dirt was not an option since it would contaminate the river. It was recommended by the Virginia DEQ that the cleanup should be done ...

Aug. 11, 2013

By Sarva Bio Remed, LLC

Mercury Analysis

Characteristics of Mercury What is Mercury? Mercury is a naturally occurring silver-colored metallic element noted for its occurrence as a liquid at room temperature and toxic to living organisms. This silvery, opaque liquid metal is very dense, yet has a high surface tension that causes it to form tiny perfect spheres in the pores of the rocks it is found in. It is ...

May 30, 2007

By HORIBA Europe GmbH

Gasoline, jet and diesel fuel soils contaminated - Petroleum product storage terminal

LOCATION: Tiverton, Rhode IslandPROJECT DATE: April, 1993 to PresentCLIENT: Confidential BACKGROUND: Soils at this 106 acre former petroleum product storage terminal have been impacted with gasoline, jet fuel, and diesel fuel over the course of 50 years. Estimates of the impacted soils range from 200,000 to 400,000 cubic yards. ACTION TAKEN: Ex-situ bioremediation is being used ...

Dec. 21, 2008

By Terra Systems, Inc. (TSI)

Rapid Analysis of Petroleum Hydrocarbons (TPH) in Soil and Water by Infrared Spectroscopy

In 1988 the US EPA estimated that there were 3 to 5 million underground chemical storage tanks (UST’s) in the United States, of which up to 1% would develop leaks every year. In response to growing concerns about the quality and future availability of safe drinking water, federal and state programs have begun to systematically replace virtually all UST’s installed before 1986 either with above ...

Dec. 31, 2005

By Buck Scientific Inc

An investigation of the impact of left‐censored soil contamination data on the uncertainty of descriptive statistical parameters

Left‐censored concentration data are frequently encountered because measuring instruments cannot detect concentrations below instruments detection limit (DL). For statistical analysis of left‐censored data, environmental literature mainly refers to the following methods: maximum likelihood estimation (MLE), regression on order statistics using lognormal and gamma assumption (rROS and GROS, ...

Mar. 3, 2016

By John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Bleeding sap and leaves of silver birch (Betula pendula) as bioindicators of metal contaminated soils

Bleeding sap of Betula pendula contained high levels of manganese on soils near ore outcrops and on acid soils, whereas high zinc levels were restricted to metal-mining and metal-smelting areas. The relationships between metal contents of bleeding sap and those of the soils were dependent on the kind of chemical soil extraction. Copper and zinc sap levels had a significantly positive correlation ...

Jul. 13, 2008

By Inderscience Publishers

Field-scale cleanup of atrazine and cyanazine contaminated soil with a combined chemical-biological approach

A former agrichemical dealership in western Nebraska was suspected of having contaminated soil. Our objective was to characterize and remediate the contaminated site by a combined chemical-biological approach. This was accomplished by creating contour maps of the on-site contamination, placing the top 60 cm of contaminated soil in windrows and mixing with a mechanical high-speed mixer. ...

Aug. 11, 2009

By Soil Science Society of America (SSSA)

Field-scale cleanup of atrazine and cyanazine contaminated soil with a combined chemical-biological approach

Received for publication August 12, 2008. A former agrichemical dealership in western Nebraska was suspected of having contaminated soil. Our objective was to characterize and remediate the contaminated site by a combined chemical-biological approach. This was accomplished by creating contour maps of the on-site contamination, placing the top 60 cm of contaminated soil in windrows and mixing with ...

Jul. 22, 2009

By Soil Science Society of America (SSSA)

Natural Attenuation in Soils

Introduction Surface and subsurface soils have different characteristics in natural attenuation. Mobile contaminants in subsurface soils diffuse into soil vapor and aqueous phase and thus are relatively easily subject to natural subsurface processes that can attenuate these contaminants. Most high-molecular-weight (persistent) organic and many inorganic contaminants will be immobilized in the ...

Dec. 31, 1996

By Federal Remediation Technologies Roundtable

Asbestos in soil methods

I wanted to start off this brief technical summary with an item that appeared in the January 2009 Indoor Environment Connections publication… “Asbestos in Soil; The State of the Issue, Tom Laubenthal, Sean Fitzgerald, Alan Seagrave, P.G. In this session, Laubenthal and Seagrave will describe the nature of asbestos contamination in soil. This issue has perplexed the industry for years. What ...

Jan. 14, 2009

By International Asbestos Testing Laboratories (iATL)

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