Variability of soil potential for biodegradation of petroleum hydrocarbons in a heterogeneous subsurface

Journal of Hazardous Materials

Volumn 179, Issue 1-3, 2010, Pages 573-580

  Kristensen, Andreas H ^a,b   Poulsen, Tjalfe G ^a   Mortensen, Lars ^b   Moldrup, Per ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b RAMBOLL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Biological heterogeneity; Petroleum vapors; Semivariogram analysis; Spatial variability; State space modeling

Indexed keywords

AUTO-REGRESSIVE; BIODEGRADATION EXPERIMENTS; DATA SETS; FIRST-ORDER RATE CONSTANTS; INORGANIC NITROGEN; NATURAL ATTENUATION; PETROLEUM COMPOUNDS; PETROLEUM HYDROCARBONS; POLLUTED SITES; SEMIVARIOGRAMS; SOIL POTENTIAL; SOIL PROPERTY; SOIL SAMPLE; SOIL STRATIGRAPHY; SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATIONS; SPATIAL CONTINUITY; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; STATE-SPACE MODELING; UNSATURATED ZONE; VERTICAL DIRECTION;

BENZENE; BIODEGRADATION; BIOREMEDIATION; DEGRADATION; GROUNDWATER; HYDROCARBONS; MICROBIOLOGY; PETROLEUM CHEMISTRY; PHOSPHORUS; RATE CONSTANTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT; SOILS; STRATIGRAPHY; UNSATURATED COMPOUNDS; VAPORS; WATER CONTENT;

PETROLEUM ANALYSIS;

BENZENE; NITROGEN; PETROLEUM DERIVATIVE; PHOSPHORUS; WATER;

BIODEGRADATION; BIOREMEDIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FATE; GEOSTATISTICS; NATURAL ATTENUATION; PETROLEUM HYDROCARBON; POROSITY; REACTION RATE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL POLLUTION; SOIL PROPERTY; SPATIAL VARIATION; VADOSE ZONE; VARIOGRAM; WATER CONTENT;

AGRICULTURAL SLURRY; ARTICLE; BIODEGRADATION; BIOREMEDIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GEOSTATISTICAL ANALYSIS; GRAVIMETRY; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; POROSITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SANDY SOIL; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL POLLUTION; SOIL PROPERTY; SOIL WATER CONTENT; SPATIAL SOIL VARIABILITY; STRATIGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HYDROCARBONS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NITROGEN; PETROLEUM; PHOSPHORUS; POROSITY; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SOIL POLLUTANTS;

EID: 77952382185     PISSN: 03043894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2010.03.042     Document Type: Article

References (47)

1. Fischer M.L., Bentley A.J., Dunkin K.A., Hodgson A.T., Nazaroff W.W., Sextro R.G., Daisey J.M. Factors affecting indoor air concentrations of volatile organic compounds at a site of subsurface gasoline contamination. Environ. Sci. Technol. 1996, 30:2948-2957.
2. Hers I., Atwater J., Li L., Zapf-Gilje R. Evaluation of vadose zone biodegradation of btx vapours. J. Contam. Hydrol. 2000, 46:233-264.
3. Patterson B.M., Davis G.B. Quantification of vapor intrusion pathways into a slab-on-ground building under varying environmental conditions. Environ. Sci. Technol. 2009, 43:650-656.
4. Baehr A.L., Stackelberg P.E., Baker R.J. Evaluation of the atmosphere as a source of volatile organic compounds in shallow groundwater. Water Resour. Res. 1999, 35:127-136.
5. Pasteris G., Werner D., Kaufmann K., Hohener P. Vapor phase transport and biodegradation of volatile fuel compounds in the unsaturated zone: a large scale lysimeter experiment. Environ. Sci. Technol. 2002, 36:30-39.
6. Christophersen M., Broholm M.M., Mosbaek H., Karapanagioti H.K., Burganos V.N., Kjeldsen P. Transport of hydrocarbons from an emplaced fuel source experiment in the vadose zone at airbase v ae rlose, Denmark. J. Contam. Hydrol. 2005, 81:1-33.
7. Hohener P., Dakhel N., Christophersen M., Broholm M., Kjeldsen P. Biodegradation of hydrocarbons vapors: comparison of laboratory studies and field investigations in the vadose zone at the emplaced fuel source experiment, airbase vaerlose, Denmark. J. Contam. Hydrol. 2006, 88:337-358.
8. Abreu L.D.V., Johnson P.C. Effect of vapor source - building separation and building construction on soil vapor intrusion as studied with a three-dimensional numerical model. Environ. Sci. Technol. 2005, 39:4550-4561.
9. Devaull G.E. Indoor vapor intrusion with oxygen-limited biodegradation for a subsurface gasoline source. Environ. Sci. Technol. 2007, 41:3241-3248.
10. Hinchee R.E., Downey D.C., Dupont R.R., Aggarwal P.K., Miller R.N. Enhancing biodegradation of petroleum hydrocarbons through soil venting. J. Hazard. Mater. 1991, 27:315-325.
11. Downey D.C., Hinchee R.E., Miller R.N. Cost-effective Remediation And Closure Of Petroleum-Contaminated Sites 1999, Battelle Press, Columbus, Ohio.
12. Boopathy R. Factors limiting bioremediation technologies. Bioresour. Technol. 2000, 74:63-67.
13. Hohener P., Hunkeler D., Hess A., Bregnard T., Zeyer J. Methodology for the evaluation of engineered in situ bioremediation: lessons from a case study. J. Microbiol. Methods 1998, 32:179-192.
14. Giller P.S. The diversity of soil communities, the 'poor man's tropical rainforest'. Biodivers. Conserv. 1996, 5:135-168.
15. Or D., Smets B.F., Wraith J.M., Dechesne A., Friedman S.P. Physical constraints affecting bacterial habitats and activity in unsaturated porous media - a review. Adv, Water Resour. 2007, 30:1505-1527.
16. Konopka A., Turco R. Biodegradation of organic compounds in vadose zone and aquifer sediments. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 1991, 57:2260-2268.
17. Bone T.L., Balkwill D.L. Morphological and cultural comparison of microorganisms in surface soil and subsurface sediments at a pristine study site in oklahoma. Microbiol. Ecol. 1988, 16:49-64.
18. Zhou J.Z., Xia B.C., Huang H., Palumbo A.V., Tiedje J.M. Microbial diversity and heterogeneity in sandy subsurface soils. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2004, 70:1723-1734.
19. Brockman F.J., Murray C.J. Symposium on Subsurface Microbiology 1996.
20. Ettema C.H., Wardle D.A. Spatial soil ecology. Trends Ecol. Evol. 2002, 17:177-183.
21. Holden P.A., Fierer N. Microbial processes in the vadose zone. Vadose Zone J. 2005, 4:1-21.
22. S. Roggemans, C.L. Bruce, P.C. Johnson, R.L. Johnson, Vadose zone natural attenuation of hydrocarbon vapors: An empirical assessment of soil gas vertical profile data, Vol. Bulletin No. 15, American Petroleum Institute, Washington, D.C., 2001.
23. Davis G.B., Rayner J.L., Trefry M.G., Fisher S.J., Patterson B.M. Measurement and modeling of temporal variations in hydrocarbon vapor behavior in a layered soil profile. Vadose Zone J. 2005, 4:225-239.
24. Davis G.B., Patterson B.M., Trefry M.G. Evidence for instantaneous oxygen-limited biodegradation of petroleum hydrocarbon vapors in the subsurface. Ground Water Monit. Rem. 2009, 29:126-137.
25. Luo H., Dahlen P., Johnson P.C., Peargin T., Creamer T. Spatial variability of soil-gas concentrations near and beneath a building overlying shallow petroleum hydrocarbon-impacted soils. Ground Water Monit. Rem. 2009, 29:81-91.
26. Huesemann M.H., Truex M.J. The role of oxygen diffusion in passive bioremediation of petroleum-contaminated soils. J. Hazard. Mater. 1996, 51:93-113.
27. Lundegard P.D., Johnson P.C., Dahlen P. Oxygen transport from the atmosphere to soil gas beneath a slab-on-grade foundation overlying petroleum-impacted soil. Environ. Sci. Technol. 2008, 42:5534-5540.
28. Dibble J.T., Bartha R. Leaching aspects of oil sludge biodegradation in soil. Soil Sci. 1979, 127:365-370.
29. Xu R., Obbard J.P. Effect of nutrient amendments on indigenous hydrocarbon biodegradation in oil-contaminated beach sediments. J. Environ. Qual. 2003, 32:1234-1243.
30. Kaufmann K., Christophersen M., Buttler A., Harms H., Hohener P. Microbial community response to petroleum hydrocarbon contamination in the unsaturated zone at the experimental field site vaerlose, Denmark. Fems Microbiol. Ecol. 2004, 48:387-399.
31. Duffera M., White J.G., Weisz R. Spatial variability of southeastern us coastal plain soil physical properties: implications for site-specific management. Geoderma 2007, 137:327-339.
32. Iqbal J., Thomasson J.A., Jenkins J.N., Owens P.R., Whisler F.D. Spatial variability analysis of soil physical properties of alluvial soils. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 2005, 69:1338-1350.
33. Botros F.E., Harter T., Onsoy Y.S., Tuli A., Hopmans J.W. Spatial variability of hydraulic properties and sediment characteristics in a deep alluvial unsaturated zone. Vadose Zone J. 2009, 8:276-289.
34. Onsoy Y.S., Harter T., Ginn T.R., Horwath W.R. Spatial variability and transport of nitrate in a deep alluvial vadose zone. Vadose Zone J. 2005, 4:41-54.
35. Kristensen A.H., Henriksen K., Mortensen L., Scow K.M., Moldrup P. Soil physical constraints on intrinsic biodegradation of petroleum vapors in a layered subsurface. Vadose Zone J. 2010, 9:1-11.
36. Lilliefors H.W. On Kolmogorov-Smirnov test for normality with mean and variance unknown. J. Am. Stat. Assoc. 1967, 62. 399-&.
37. Mann H.B., Whitney D.R. On a test of whether one of 2 random variables is stochastically larger than the other. Ann. Math. Statistics 1947, 18:50-60.
38. Hammer Ø., Harper D.A.T., Ryan P.D. Past: Paleontological statistics software package for education and data analysis. Palaeontologia Electronica 2001, 4.
39. Sen Z. Cumulative semivariogram models of regionalized variables. Mathematical Geol. 1989, 21:891-903.
40. Nielsen D.R., Wendroth O. Spatial And Temporal Statistics: Sampling Field Soils And Their Vegetation 2003, Catena Verlag GMBH, Reiskirchen, Germany.
41. Poulsen T.G., Moldrup P., Wendroth O., Nielsen D.R. Estimating saturated hydraulic conductivity and air permeability from soil physical properties using state-space analysis. Soil Sci. 2003, 168:311-320.
42. Dawe R.A., Wheat M.R., Bidner M.S. Experimental investigation of capillary-pressure effects on immiscible displacement in lensed and layered porous-media. Transport Porous Media 1992, 7:83-101.
43. Phillips D.H., Thomas A.O., Forde K., Dickson K., Plant S., Norris G., Bone B., Kalin R.M. Fate and transport of volatile organic compounds in glacial till and groundwater at an industrial site in northern Ireland. Environ. Geol. 2007, 52:1117-1131.
44. Smith J.L., Reible D.D., Koo Y.S., Cheah E.P.S. Vacuum extraction of a nonaqueous phase residual in a heterogeneous vadose zone. J. Hazard. Mater. 1996, 49:247-265.
45. Taylor J.P., Wilson B., Mills M.S., Burns R.G. Comparison of microbial numbers and enzymatic activities in surface soils and subsoils using various techniques. Soil Biol. Biochem. 2002, 34:387-401.
46. Watwood M.E., White C.S., Dahm C.N. Methodological modifications for accurate and efficient determination of contaminant biodegradation in unsaturated calcareous soil. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 1991, 57:717-720.
47. Skopp J., Jawson M.D., Doran J.W. Steady-state aerobic microbial activity as a function of soil-water content. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 1990, 54:1619-1625.