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FEASIBILITY OF ELECTROKINETIC SOIL REMEDIATION IN HORIZONTAL LASAGNA CELLS
Citation:
Roulier*, M H., M Kemper*, S R. AlAbed*, L. Murdoch, P. Cluxton, J. L. Chen**, AND W J. DavisHoover*. FEASIBILITY OF ELECTROKINETIC SOIL REMEDIATION IN HORIZONTAL LASAGNA CELLS. JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS. Elsevier Science BV, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 77(1-3):161-176, (2000).
Description:
An integrated soil remediation technology called Lasagna has been developed that combines electrokinetics with treatment zones for use in low permeability soils where the rates of hydraulic and electrokinetic transport are too low to be useful for remediation of contaminants. The technology was developed by two groups, one inv0olving industrial partners and the DOE and another involving USEPA and the U. of Cincinnati, who pursued different electrode geometries. The Industry/DOE group has demonstrated the technology using electrodes and treatment zones installed vertically from the soil surface. We have demonstrated the feasibi9lity of installing horizontal electrodes and treatment zones in subsurface sols by hydraulic fracturing, a process that we adapted from petroleum industry practices. When horizontal electrodes were connected to a dc poser supply, uniform electrical potential gradients of 10-40 V/m were created in soil between the electrodes, inducing electroosmotic flow that facilitated movement of water and contaminants into treatment zones between the electrodes.