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When is a soil remediated? Comparison of biopiled and windrowed soils contaminated with bunker-fuel in a full-scale trial

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When is a soil remediated? Comparison of biopiled and windrowed soils contaminated with bunker-fuel in a full-scale trial. / Coulon, Frederic; Al Awadi, Mohammed; Cowie, William et al.
In: Environmental Pollution, Vol. 158, No. 10, 10.2010, p. 3032-3040.

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Coulon, F, Al Awadi, M, Cowie, W, Mardlin, D, Pollard, S, Cunningham, C, Risdon, G, Arthur, P, Semple, KT & Paton, GI 2010, 'When is a soil remediated? Comparison of biopiled and windrowed soils contaminated with bunker-fuel in a full-scale trial', Environmental Pollution, vol. 158, no. 10, pp. 3032-3040. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2010.06.001

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Coulon, F., Al Awadi, M., Cowie, W., Mardlin, D., Pollard, S., Cunningham, C., Risdon, G., Arthur, P., Semple, K. T., & Paton, G. I. (2010). When is a soil remediated? Comparison of biopiled and windrowed soils contaminated with bunker-fuel in a full-scale trial. Environmental Pollution, 158(10), 3032-3040. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2010.06.001

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Coulon F, Al Awadi M, Cowie W, Mardlin D, Pollard S, Cunningham C et al. When is a soil remediated? Comparison of biopiled and windrowed soils contaminated with bunker-fuel in a full-scale trial. Environmental Pollution. 2010 Oct;158(10):3032-3040. doi: 10.1016/j.envpol.2010.06.001

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Coulon, Frederic ; Al Awadi, Mohammed ; Cowie, William et al. / When is a soil remediated? Comparison of biopiled and windrowed soils contaminated with bunker-fuel in a full-scale trial. In: Environmental Pollution. 2010 ; Vol. 158, No. 10. pp. 3032-3040.

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title = "When is a soil remediated? Comparison of biopiled and windrowed soils contaminated with bunker-fuel in a full-scale trial",
abstract = "A six month field scale study was carried out to compare windrow turning and biopile techniques for the remediation of soil contaminated with bunker C fuel oil. End-point clean-up targets were defined by human risk assessment and ecotoxicological hazard assessment approaches. Replicate windrows and biopiles were amended with either nutrients and inocula, nutrients alone or no amendment. In addition to fractionated hydrocarbon analysis, culturable microbial characterisation and soil ecotoxicological assays were performed. This particular soil, heavy in texture and historically contaminated with bunker fuel was more effectively remediated by windrowing, but coarser textures may be more amendable to biopiling. This trial reveals the benefit of developing risk and hazard based approaches in defining end-point bioremediation of heavy hydrocarbons when engineered biopile or windrow are proposed as treatment option. (c) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.",
keywords = "Bunker fuel, Windrows, Biopiles, Bioremediation, Soil ecotoxicology",
author = "Frederic Coulon and {Al Awadi}, Mohammed and William Cowie and David Mardlin and Simon Pollard and Colin Cunningham and Graeme Risdon and Paul Arthur and Semple, {Kirk T.} and Paton, {Graeme I.}",
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language = "English",
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AU - Cowie, William

AU - Mardlin, David

AU - Pollard, Simon

AU - Cunningham, Colin

AU - Risdon, Graeme

AU - Arthur, Paul

AU - Semple, Kirk T.

AU - Paton, Graeme I.

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AB - A six month field scale study was carried out to compare windrow turning and biopile techniques for the remediation of soil contaminated with bunker C fuel oil. End-point clean-up targets were defined by human risk assessment and ecotoxicological hazard assessment approaches. Replicate windrows and biopiles were amended with either nutrients and inocula, nutrients alone or no amendment. In addition to fractionated hydrocarbon analysis, culturable microbial characterisation and soil ecotoxicological assays were performed. This particular soil, heavy in texture and historically contaminated with bunker fuel was more effectively remediated by windrowing, but coarser textures may be more amendable to biopiling. This trial reveals the benefit of developing risk and hazard based approaches in defining end-point bioremediation of heavy hydrocarbons when engineered biopile or windrow are proposed as treatment option. (c) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

KW - Bunker fuel

KW - Windrows

KW - Biopiles

KW - Bioremediation

KW - Soil ecotoxicology

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