Soil Bioremediation: Overview of Technologies and Trends

Petroleum hydrocarbons, heavy metals and agricultural pesticides have mutagenic, carcinogenic, immunotoxic and teratogenic effects and cause drastic changes in soil physicochemical and microbiological characteristics, thereby representing a serious danger to health and environment. Therefore, soil p...

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Veröffentlicht in:Energies (Basel) 2020-09, Vol.13 (18), p.4664, Article 4664
Hauptverfasser: Sales da Silva, Israel Goncalves, Gomes de Almeida, Fabiola Carolina, da Rocha e Silva, Nathalia Maria Padilha, Casazza, Alessandro Alberto, Converti, Attilio, Asfora Sarubbo, Leonie
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Zusammenfassung:Petroleum hydrocarbons, heavy metals and agricultural pesticides have mutagenic, carcinogenic, immunotoxic and teratogenic effects and cause drastic changes in soil physicochemical and microbiological characteristics, thereby representing a serious danger to health and environment. Therefore, soil pollution urgently requires the application of a series of physicochemical and biological techniques and treatments to minimize the extent of damage. Among them, bioremediation has been shown to be an alternative that can offer an economically viable way to restore polluted areas. Due to the difficulty in choosing the best bioremediation technique for each type of pollutant and the paucity of literature on soil bioremediation enhanced by the use of specific additives, we reviewed the mainin situandex situmethods, their current properties and applications. The first section discusses the characteristics of each class of pollutants in detail, while the second section presents current bioremediation technologies and their main uses, followed by a comparative analysis showing their respective advantages and disadvantages. Finally, we address the application of surfactants and biosurfactants as well as the main trends in the bioremediation of contaminated soils.
ISSN:1996-1073
1996-1073
DOI:10.3390/en13184664