Natural and Technical Phytoremediation of Oil-Contaminated Soil

Overview

Journal Life (Basel)

Specialty Biology

Date 2023 Jan 21

PMID 36676126

Authors

Leonid Panchenko

Anna Muratova

Ekaterina Dubrovskaya

Sergey Golubev

Olga Turkovskaya

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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 m 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 ( L.), ryegrass ( 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.

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