Cork barriers for the remediation of soils polluted with lindane

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2023

Authors

Remor, PV (Author) Other; Isidro, J (Author) Other; Saez, C (Author) Other; Figueiredo, SA (Author) Other; Vitor Vilar (Author) FEUP; Rodrigo, MA (Author) Other

Journal

Title: Journal of Hazardous Materials

Vol. 460

ISSN: 0304-3894

Publisher: Elsevier

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Authenticus ID: P-00Z-03V

DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2023.132296

Abstract (EN): The in-situ removal of lindane from spiked soil was studied using cork barriers combined with electrokinetic and ohmic heating soil remediation processes. Both vertical and horizontal cork barriers have been evaluated to retain pollutants mobilized by electro-osmotic flow or volatilized by ohmic heating. Moreover, the addition of surfactant solutions in electrolyte wells has been evaluated to promote the dragging of lindane by electrokinetic fluxes. Results indicated that the drag of lindane by liquid flows is not as important as expected, opposite to what happened with the dragging by gaseous flows. The retention of gaseous lindane was also confirmed in adsorption tests carried out in a column packed with cork granules. The addition of surfactant had a very limited effect on the mobility of lindane, and dragging of this species to the electrode wells or to a permeable reactive barrier. On the contrary, the reactivity of lindane during the electrochemical treatments is relevant due to the electrokinetic basic front promoting the in-situ conversion of lindane into less chlorinated pollutants.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 9