Environmental remediation monitoring using chemical sensors
- Unocal Corp., Brea, CA (United States)
Monitoring is one of the most critical steps in environmental site remediation. However, the conventional technique of monitoring {open_quotes}inlet{close_quotes} and {open_quotes}outlet{close_quotes} of a process stream is no longer applicable in many in-situ remedial processes such as bioventing, biosparging, and intrinsic bioremediation. Traditional soil sampling and analysis is also unsuitable for monitoring biodegradation process because of chemical and biological inhomogeneity in soil. Soil gas measurement, on the other hand, is one of the few techniques available which is ideally suited for monitoring in-situ processes, since bioremediation processes involve gaseous components such as oxygen and carbon dioxide. In addition to oxygen and carbon dioxide, contaminant vapors and other trace gaseous components found in the pores of unsaturated soils also provide information on the spatial distribution and the extent of biodegradation. These gaseous components are very mobile, which are ideal analytes for chemical sensors. In this study, oxygen, carbon dioxide, and hydrocarbon subsurface chemical sensors were employed for monitoring in-situ bioremediation of petroleum hydrocarbon contaminated soils.
- OSTI ID:
- 441268
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-960782-; TRN: 96:006557-0039
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 6. international meeting on chemical sensors, Gaithersburg, MD (United States), 22-25 Jul 1996; Other Information: PBD: 1996; Related Information: Is Part Of The 6th international meeting on chemical sensors; PB: 313 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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