INEPO APPLICATION
Egypt
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Egypt
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Lily |
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Bishay | |
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Biochemistry | |||
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Ahmed | Surname: |
Mahdia | |
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21 July 1989
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Mohamed | Surname: |
Aref | |
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22 september 1992
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| Crude Oil Degradation in Contaminated Soil Comparing Land-Farming, Surface Heating and Enhanced Biodegradation | ||||
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| Environment-Biology | ||||
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| One of the most destructive pollutants known today is oil contamination. For decades people have been trying to find the cheapest and most efficient cleanup ways of oil contaminated soil. Many solutions were found and put to use. The purpose of this research is to compare Land-Farming, Surface Heating, and Enhanced Biodegradation of oil contaminated soil to find out which of these methods is the cheapest and most efficient. The experiments were designed by forming models of the three processes. Fifty gram soil samples each contaminated with 10ml of crude oil passed through each process. In Land-Farming and Enhanced Biodegradation, the samples were left in a 30oC incubator for five days. Then the oil was extracted. As for Surface Heating, the remaining oil was extracted from the soil after passing hot vapor and filtration of the vapor. The extracted oil was passed through an HPLC (High Performance Liquid Chromatograph) and the amount of contaminants left was measured. The Land-Farming model was only able to degrade less than 1% of the oil contamination after the 5 day incubation period. Enhanced Biodegradation by Pseudomonas sp. was able to degrade about 35% of the oil in the same period. As for Surface Heating, more than 50% of the contaminants were removed, with the consumption of 15.75 Kcal of heat. Land-Farming proved to be the most time consuming method, compared to Enhanced Biodegradation and Surface Heating. Surface Heating had the most purification capacity and least time, but needs high amount of funding and energy. Enhanced Biodegradation combined both an average purification capability and average time consumption. Plus, Enhanced Biodegradation is the cheapest of the three methods. Bacteria could prove very useful if it acts well under field trial test and survived for a reasonable period sufficient for oil biodegradation. | ||||