Bioremediation of crude oil contaminated soils a black art or an engineering challenge?

Process Safety and Environmental Protection

Volumn 83, Issue 4 B, 2005, Pages 364-370

  Benyahia, F ^a   Abdulkarim, M ^a   Zekri, A ^a   Chaalal, O ^a   Hasanain, H ^a  

^a UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

Biopile system; Bioremediation; Contaminated soil; Crude oil

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; BIOREMEDIATION; CARBON DIOXIDE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; HYDROCARBONS; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; SOILS;

BIOLOGICALLY BASED TREATMENT PROCESSES; BIOPILE SYSTEMS; CONTAMINATED SOIL; TOTAL EXTRACTABLE MATTERS (TEM);

CRUDE PETROLEUM;

EID: 22944450038     PISSN: 09575820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1205/psep.04388     Document Type: Article

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