Soil Washing Potential of Biosurfactant in Soil Remediation

Biosurfactant를 이용한 환경수복에서의 토양세척능

  • 최영국 (한국화학연구소 화학기술연구부) ;
  • 김민길 (한국화학연구소 화학기술연구부) ;
  • 이수복 (한국화학연구소 화학기술연구부) ;
  • 이가연 (충북대학교 화학과) ;
  • 이대희 (충북대학교 화학과) ;
  • 권수한 (충북대학교 화학과)
  • Published : 1999.10.01

Abstract

The goal of present study is to evaluate the potential of soil washing for removing metal contaminants from a contaminated soil. Remediation of a soil contaminated with copper, cadmium and phenol were performed by a soil washing using a biosurfactant. The removal of copper, cadmium and phenol from soil (sandy, kaoline, mixed one) was evaluated as a function of biosurfactant (wt %) concentration in the batch process. The results showed that overall rejection coefficient for copper, cadmium and phenol were grater than 50 %, 25 %, respectively.

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