Development and Application of an In Situ Technology to Treat Various Soil and Groundwater Contaminants

최근 현장(In situ)에서의 토양 및 지하수 오염 정화는 오염물질을 현장에서 추출해 지상에서 처리하는 것이 아니라, 직접 현장에서 미생물 혹은 화학물질과 오염물질의 혼합을 통한 분해기 작을 이용해, 오염물질을 제거하는 과정을 의미한다. 이러한 현장오염정화 기법 중 하나가 Figure 1에 도시한 수직흐름처리정(Horizontal Flow Treatment Wells, HFTWs)으로 2개의 정(well) 중간지점에 반응물질을 설치한 후 각각의 정에서 상향 및 하향흐름을 발생시켜 주위의 지하수를 순환시키면서 정화하는 기법이다.

The limitations of conventional soil and groundwater contamination remediation technologies have motivated a search for innovative technologies; particularly in situ technologies that do not require extraction of contaminants from the subsurface. All engineered in situ remediation systems require that the contaminant be mixed with a remedial compound. Horizontal flow treatment wells (HFTWs), an innovative technology that consists of a pair of dual-screened treatment wells, were used at a trichloroethylene (TCE) contaminated site to efficiently achieve this mixing of contaminant and remedial compound in order to effect in situ bioremediation (McCarty et al., 1998). In this paper, the potential of HFTWs to treat chlorinated aliphatic hydrocarbons (CAHs) as well as other soil and groundwater contaminants of concern, such as nitroaromatic compounds (NACs), perchlorate, and methyl-tert-butyl ether (MTBE), is examined. Through a combination of laboratory studies, model analyses, and field evaluations, the effectiveness of this innovative technology to manage these contaminants is investigated.