Journal
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
Volume 756, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.144142
Keywords
Surfactant; Oil contamination; Soil; Groundwater; Tailing; Rebound
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Funding
- National Key Research and Development Program of China [2018YFC1800703]
- Open Research Fund Program of Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Oilfield Produced Water Treatment and Environmental Pollution Control
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Oil leakage during extraction, processing, transportation, and storage can seriously damage the soil and groundwater environment. Surfactants play a crucial role in enhancing the remediation of oil-contaminated sites by reducing surface tension, improving contact efficiency of contaminants, and suppressing tailing and rebound effects. Different types of surfactants offer diverse options for remediation, with biosurfactants and mixed surfactants being particularly effective and worth attention. Adsorption of surfactants on soils and aquifer sediments should be minimized to avoid decreased remediation efficiency and potential secondary pollution.
Oil leakage, which is inevitable in the process of extraction, processing, transportation and storage, seriously undermines the soil and groundwater environment. Surfactants can facilitate the migration and solution of oil contaminants from nonaqueous phase liquid (NAPL) or solid phase to water by reducing the (air/water) surface tension, (oil/water) interfacial tension and micellar solubilization. They can effectively enhance the hydrodynamic driven remediation technologies by improving the contact efficiency of contaminants and liquid remediation agents or microorganism, and have been widely used to enhance the remediation of oil-contaminated sites. This paper summarizes the characteristics of different types of surfactants such as nonionic, anionic, biological and mixed surfactants, their enhancements to the remediation of oil-contaminated soil and groundwater, and examines the factors influencing surfactant performance. The causes of tailing and rebound effects and the role of surfactants in suppressing them are also discussed. Laboratory researches and actual site remediation practices have shown that various types of surfactants offer diverse options. Biosurfactants and mixed surfactants are superior and worth attention among the surfactants. Using surfactant foams, adding shear-thinning polymers, and combining surfactants with in-situ chemical oxidation are effective ways to resolve tailing and rebound effects. The adsorption of surfactants on soils and aquifer sediments decreases remediation efficiency and may cause secondary pollution, Therefore the adsorption loss should be noticed and minimized. (C) 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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