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BIOREMEDIATION TO TREAT THE WORLD'S WORST EVER RECORDED OIL
CONTAMINATION CASE
Alsulaili, A., W. Alkhamees, S. Alghurbah, A. Almershed, and S. Alrashdan.
Proceedings of the 5th World Congress on New Technologies (NewTech'19), Lisbon, Portugal, 18-20 August, 12 pp, 2019
Burning oil wells during the 1990 Gulf War polluted the soil in Kuwait. The bioremediation technology "vermi-remediation" was chosen to treat the oil-contaminated soil using earthworms. The objective was to conduct a series of experiments to determine whether the technique was effective in treating Kuwait's soil and to what extent. Treatment results were found to surpass the results of currently implemented remediation methods by reducing both contamination and time of treatment. The system was found to treat up to 62% of TPHs in highly oil-contaminated soil samples, 55% for medium oil-contaminated soil samples and 71% for low oil-contaminated soil samples within three weeks. https://avestia.com/NewTech2019_Proceedings/files/paper/ICEPR/ICEPR_154.pdf
Proceedings of the 5th World Congress on New Technologies (NewTech'19), Lisbon, Portugal, 18-20 August, 12 pp, 2019
Burning oil wells during the 1990 Gulf War polluted the soil in Kuwait. The bioremediation technology "vermi-remediation" was chosen to treat the oil-contaminated soil using earthworms. The objective was to conduct a series of experiments to determine whether the technique was effective in treating Kuwait's soil and to what extent. Treatment results were found to surpass the results of currently implemented remediation methods by reducing both contamination and time of treatment. The system was found to treat up to 62% of TPHs in highly oil-contaminated soil samples, 55% for medium oil-contaminated soil samples and 71% for low oil-contaminated soil samples within three weeks. https://avestia.com/NewTech2019_Proceedings/files/paper/ICEPR/ICEPR_154.
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