Course detail
Decontamination and Remediation Technologies
FCH-MA_ENG3Acad. year: 2024/2025
The content of the subject are information about sources of long-term and short-term soil pollution (anthropogenic activities – mining, agricultural activities, industry). Procedures for assessing the environmental burden and risk analysis are also presented. Main groups of contaminants of the rock environment from the perspective of decontamination methods. Basic classification of decontamination methods according to the site and the environment they are focused on. Decontamination procedures using natural mechanisms. Physical methods of decontamination (evaporation, extraction, scrubbing, etc.). Mechanical methods (removal of the affected layer, covering). Chemical, biochemical and microbial decontamination processes. Examples of use of decontamination technologies in specific contaminated areas.
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Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
Presence on seminars is compulsory
Aims
Students will learn about the main sources of contamination of individual environmental compartments and major environmental contaminants. Students will learn about mechanisms of contamination of individual environmental compartments. Based on this knowledge, they will understand the methods and principles of each type of decontamination and will be able to suggest basic decontamination procedure and methods.
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Prerequisites and corequisites
Basic literature
Helmut Meuser (2013). Soil Remediation and Rehabilitation: Treatment of Contaminated and Disturbed Land (Environmental Pollution) 2013th Edition Springer; ISBN-13: 978-9400757509, 408 pp (EN)
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Syllabus
2) Legal aspects of old ecological burdens, risk analysis and survey of contaminated territory, risk assessment in connection with decontamination work.
3) Terminology connected with problematic of decontamination. Main groups of contaminants and their properties from the perspective of decontamination technologies.
4) Basic classification of decontamination methods.
5) Methods for decontamination of the rock environment - overview. Contaminated soil - definition and basic characteristics.
6) Natural methods of decontamination with a focus on biological methods in situ - basic classification and principles of biological methods. Bioventing and phytosanation.
7) Physical and mechanical methods of decontamination and remediation in situ; vitrification, stabilization, solidification, encapsulation – description, principles.
8) Chemical methods of decontamination in situ; classification and basic characteristics. Oxidation reduction methods.
9) Overview of decontamination methods used for contaminated soil ex situ; biological, chemical, physical methods – principles, description.
10) Decontamination methods of main pollutants of the rock environment - of PCBs, PAHs, oil products etc.
11) Groundwater decontamination; basic methods used for decontamination in situ and ex situ. Non-Aqueous Phase Liquids – definition, problems connected with their removal.
12) Groundwater decontamination – methods used in situ. Treatment walls.
13) New directions in decontamination technologies; nanoparticles, membranes etc.
Guided consultation in combined form of studies
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