When is a soil remediated? Comparison of biopiled and windrowed soils contaminated with bunker-fuel in a full-scale trial

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 158, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 3032-3040

  Coulon, Frédéric ^a   Al Awadi, Mohammed ^b   Cowie, William ^b   Mardlin, David ^b,c   Pollard, Simon ^a   Cunningham, Colin ^d   Risdon, Graeme ^e   Arthur, Paul ^c,f   Semple, Kirk T ^f   Paton, Graeme I ^b,c  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^c Remedios Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^e TES Bretby   (United Kingdom)

^f LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biopiles; Bioremediation; Bunker fuel; Soil ecotoxicology; Windrows

Indexed keywords

BIOPILES; BUNKER FUEL; CHARACTERISATION; CULTURABLE; ECOTOXICOLOGICAL; END POINTS; FIELD SCALE; FULL-SCALE TRIALS; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HEAVY HYDROCARBONS; HUMAN RISK ASSESSMENT; HYDROCARBON ANALYSIS; INOCULA; WINDROWS;

BIODEGRADATION; BIOREMEDIATION; BIOTECHNOLOGY; ECOLOGY; FUEL OILS; FUELS; HYDROCARBONS; NUTRIENTS; POINT CONTACTS; POLLUTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; TEXTURES;

SOILS;

FUEL OIL; HYDROCARBON; PETROLEUM;

BIOASSAY; BIOREMEDIATION; ECOTOXICOLOGY; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HYDROCARBON; OIL POLLUTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL POLLUTION; SOIL REMEDIATION;

ARTICLE; BIOLUMINESCENCE; BIOREMEDIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOTOXICOLOGY; FRACTIONATION; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; INOCULATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL AMENDMENT; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL POLLUTION;

ANIMALS; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUEL OILS; GERMINATION; HYDROCARBONS; MUSTARD PLANT; OLIGOCHAETA; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEEDS; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SOIL POLLUTANTS;

EID: 77956520692     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2010.06.001     Document Type: Article

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