Remediation study of contaminated kaolinite with diesel or hexavalente chromium by applying electrokinetics and permeable reactive barrier of cork.
Cork, soil remediation, electrokinetics
In addition to heavy metal pollution, the environment faces contamination through organic components. Related to the oil industry, soil fuel pollution is generally related to accidental spills during handling, transport or storage activities in underground storage tanks, distribution systems or industrial crude oil refining activities. This is a serious environmental issue, due to the high negative impact of fuel contamination on the quality of water reservoirs, which prevents the use of this water for human consumption and the dangerousness of the chemical species contained in the fuel for the organisms that live in the soil. In order to fulfill these objectives, electrokinetic remediation combining granules of cork as a reactive permeable barrier and surfactants / chelating agents with low environmental impact are the technologies chosen for the study of the removal efficiency of the contaminants presented in this project, with the purpose of producing and contributing with new data on soil decontamination to be applied on a large scale.