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http://dx.doi.org/10.5322/JES.2010.19.2.247

The Effect of Ultrasound Application to Anionic/Non-ionic Surfactant Aided Soil-washing Process for Enhancing Diesel Contaminated Soils Remediation  

Cho, Sang-Hyun (School of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, Korea University)
Son, Young-Gyu (School of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, Korea University)
Nam, Sang-Geon (School of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, Korea University)
Cui, Ming-Can (School of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, Korea University)
Khim, Jee-Hyeong (School of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, Korea University)
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Journal of Environmental Science International / v.19, no.2, 2010 , pp. 247-254 More about this Journal
Abstract
Ultrasound and Surfactant aided soil washing process has been shown to be an effective method to remove diesel from soils. The use of surfactants can improve the mobility of diesel in soil-water systems by increasing solubility of adsorbed diesel into surfactant micelles. However, a large amount of surfactant is required for treatment. In addition, synthetic surfactants, specially anionic, are more toxic and the surfactant wastewater is hard to treat by conventional wastewater treatments even by AOPs. Ultrasound improves desorption of the diesel adsorbed on to soil. The mechanisms are based on physical breakage of bonds by hot spot, directly impact onto soil particle surface, the fragmentation of long-chain hydrocarbons by micro-jet and microstreaming in the soil pores. The use of ultrasound as an enhancement method in both anionic and nonionic surfactant aided soil-washing processes were studied. And all experiments were examined proceeded under CMC surfactant concentration, frequency 35 khz, power 400 W, Soil-water ratio 1:3(wt%), particle size 0.24 ~ 2mm and initial diesel concentration. 20,000 mg/kg. Combination with ultrasound showed significant enhancements on all the processes. Especially, nonionic surfactant Triton-X100 with ultrasound showed remarkable enhancements and diesel removal rate enhanced by ultrasound helps desorpting of surfactant adsorbed onto soils which prevented decreasing surfactant activity.
Keywords
Ultrasound; Anionic; Nonionic; Surfactant; Diesel; Soil washing;
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