petroleum contamination testing Articles
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Exxon Valdez Tanker Spill - Case Study
In 1989 the world’s first big oil tanker disaster occured off the coast of Alaska. The Exxon Valdez’s oil cargo polluted the pristine coast line of Alaska. Exxon searched the globe for a biotechnological solution to the Valdez spill. French Petroleum company ELF AQUITAINE was developing a bio-remediation product called INIPOL EAP-22. After extensive tests Exxon purchased ...
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Bioremediation of hydrocarbon impacted soils - Marchbanks, Dundee
Client: Dundee City Council Objective: Bioremediation of hydrocarbon contaminated soils to achieve compliance with the Waste Acceptance Criteria (WAC) for Mineral Oil (C10 – C40); with the intention of re-using the soils to Riverside Recycling Centre to be used as a capping layer. Challenge: Approximately 2,800 m3 of hydrocarbon impacted soil was stockpiled at the rear of Marchbanks ...
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Case study: Ford Getrag
ISTR Overview Consultant: ICF Neighborhood: Downtown Heating Tubes: 130 Target Temp: 100 ˚C Heating Period: 49 Days Target: 6 mg/kg Destruction Rate Efficiency: > 99% Contaminant: Petroleum Hydrocarbons PAHs, Other Inorganics Geology: Fine Alluvium Volume: 50-500 A pilot test preceded the full scale thermal remediation. The subsurface soils were impacted by DNAPL trapped in a ...
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Types of bioremediation and their modes of action
An Urgent Call for Change in U.S. Oil Spill Response With Bioremediation Agent Type EA* bearing out as a workable first response alternative to the use of chemical dispersants, contrasting evidence has become even clearer that dispersant use has been a huge failure. Dispersants have proven to be an inadequate response method with more and more studies showing an end point of enormous natural ...
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