Publication Details |
| Category | Text Publication |
| Reference Category | Journals |
| DOI | 10.1002/clen.201100332 |
| Title (Primary) | Evaluation of the effectiveness of different methods for the remediation of contaminated groundwater by determining the petroleum hydrocarbon content |
| Author | Voyevoda, M.; Geyer, W.; Mosig, P.; Seeger, E.M.; Mothes, S. |
| Source Titel | CLEAN-Soil Air Water |
| Year | 2012 |
| Department | UBT; ANA; UBZ |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Page From | 817 |
| Page To | 822 |
| Language | englisch |
| Keywords | BTEX; Modified GC-FID method; Partial least squares (PLS) model; Petroleum hydrocarbon |
| Abstract | The effectiveness of different remediation procedures for decreasing the amount of TPH (total petroleum hydrocarbons) in contaminated groundwater was evaluated at the site of a former refinery. The investigations were carried out on samples taken from several gravel based HSSF (horizontal subsurface flow) constructed wetlands (CW) which differed in relation to their filter material additives (no additive, charcoal, and ferric oxides additives) and examined the potential effect of these additives on the overall treatment efficiency. Samples of the following gravel based HSSF CW were investigated. No filter additive (system A), 0.1% activated carbon (system B), 0.5% iron(III) hydroxide (system C), and the reference (system D). Systems A–C were planted with common reed (Phragmites australis), whereas system D remained unplanted. In addition, the influence of seasonal conditions on the reduction of these hydrocarbons and the correlation between the amounts of TPH and BTEX (benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and xylene isomers), on the one hand, and methyl tert-butyl ether, on the other, was investigated. The study was carried out by using a modified GC-FID approach and multivariate methods. The investigations carried out in the first year of operation demonstrated that the effectiveness of the petroleum hydrocarbon removal was highest and reached a level of 93 ± 3.5% when HSSF filters with activated carbon as a filter additive were used. This remediation method allowed the petroleum hydrocarbon content to be reduced independently of seasonal conditions. The correlation between the reduction of TPH and BTEX was found to be R = 0.8824. Using this correlation coefficient, the time-consuming determination of the BTEX content was no longer necessary. |
| Persistent UFZ Identifier | https://www.ufz.de/index.php?en=20939&ufzPublicationIdentifier=12765 |
| Voyevoda, M., Geyer, W., Mosig, P., Seeger, E.M., Mothes, S. (2012): Evaluation of the effectiveness of different methods for the remediation of contaminated groundwater by determining the petroleum hydrocarbon content CLEAN-Soil Air Water 40 (8), 817 - 822 10.1002/clen.201100332 |
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