Can thermal soil remediation be sustainable? a case study of the environmental merit of the remediation of a site contaminated by a light non-aqueous phase liquid (LNAPL)

Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 103-121

  Cappuyns, Valérie ^a   Bouckenooghe, Diederik ^a   van Breuseghem, Lien ^a   van Herreweghe, Samuel ^b  

^a HOGESCHOOL UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b MAVA Assured Environmental Solutions ^*  (Belgium)

Author keywords

BATNEEC; Energy consumption; Environmental merit; LCA; Remediation

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959544368     PISSN: 1943815X     EISSN: 19438168     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1943815X.2011.564187     Document Type: Article

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