Electrokinetic (EK) remediation of a fine sandy loam: The effect of voltage and reservoir conditioning
- West Virginia Univ., Morgantown, WV (United States). Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Recently, attention has focused on developing cost effective in situ techniques to remove contaminants from soils. There is a need for cost effective and more efficient technologies that can be used to remediate low permeability soils in-situ. A candidate technology for this type of remedial measure is electrokinetic (EK) soil flushing. Recently, attention has focused on electrokinetics as a remediation technology. However, there is a need for experimentation on methods that may potentially enhance the effects and minimize the cost of EK soil flushing on the remediation of contaminated soil systems. Based on the fact that lead is a predominate constituent found in many Superfund sites across the United States, this research focused on applying the EK soil flushing process to removing Pb from an artificially contaminated soil system. The objectives of this research were to determine the effect of voltage and reservoir conditioning on energy expenditure and time required for lead removal.
- OSTI ID:
- 250950
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-9507204-; TRN: IM9629%%263
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 27. Mid-Atlantic industrial waste conference, Bethlehem, PA (United States), 9-12 Jul 1995; Other Information: PBD: 1995; Related Information: Is Part Of Hazardous and industrial wastes: Proceedings of the twenty-seventh Mid-Atlantic industrial waste conference; Sengupta, A.K. [ed.] [Lehigh Univ., Bethlehem, PA (United States)]; PB: 973 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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