Mitigation of the Environmental Health Risk on Military Air Bases Polluted with Hydrocarbons
Publication: Journal of Environmental Engineering
Volume 143, Issue 1
Abstract
This paper presents the environmental and health threats caused by petroleum products as well as the results of remediation work on five air bases where biological cleaning methods developed by the authors were implemented. The aviation fuel leakages endangered the health of people and surface water streams at the sites as well as in distant locations. The aim of the research was to verify remediation techniques developed in laboratory tests. The initial concentration of total petroleum products in the soils reached of dry matter, which presented an extremely high risk to the population and the environment. The autochthonous bacterial strains, which included Pseudomonas fluorescens, Acinetobacter calcoaceticus, Pseudomonas putida I, and Pseudomonas putida II, were proven to be very effective in degrading the xenobiotics. The applied microorganisms in conjunction with the authors’ remediation techniques produced very successful results. In the technical ex situ and in situ tests, the concentration of gasoline range organics C6–C12 at the considered bases was reduced to , allowing safe usage of the facilities and helping prevent propagation of the contaminants.
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Acknowledgments
The work was carried out at the Wroclaw University of Technology in the frame of a scientific project funded by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education within statutory activities under contract No. S50150.
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Volume 143 • Issue 1 • January 2017
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Received: Mar 1, 2016
Accepted: Jun 6, 2016
Published online: Jul 20, 2016
Discussion open until: Dec 20, 2016
Published in print: Jan 1, 2017
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