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- Title
Natural and Technical Phytoremediation of Oil-Contaminated Soil.
- Authors
Panchenko, Leonid; Muratova, Anna; Dubrovskaya, Ekaterina; Golubev, Sergey; Turkovskaya, Olga
- Abstract
Natural and technical phytoremediation approaches were compared for their efficacy in decontaminating oil-polluted soil. We examined 20 oil-contaminated sites of 800 to 12,000 m2 each, with different contamination types (fresh or aged) and levels (4.2–27.4 g/kg). The study was conducted on a field scale in the industrial and adjacent areas of a petroleum refinery. Technical remediation with alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.), ryegrass (Lolium perenne L.), nitrogen fertilizer, and soil agrotechnical treatment was used to clean up 10 sites contaminated by oil hydrocarbons (average concentration, 13.7 g/kg). In technical phytoremediation, the per-year decontamination of soil was as high as 72–90%, whereas in natural phytoremediation (natural attenuation with native vegetation) at 10 other oil-contaminated sites, per-year decontamination was as high as that only after 5 years. Rhizodegradation is supposed as the principal mechanisms of both phytoremediation approaches.
- Subjects
PHYTOREMEDIATION; SOIL remediation; RYEGRASSES; ALFALFA; LOLIUM perenne; NITROGEN fertilizers; NATIVE plants; SOILS
- Publication
Life (2075-1729), 2023, Vol 13, Issue 1, p177
- ISSN
2075-1729
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/life13010177