Environmental pollution as a result of drilling and mining activities in areas where deposits of petroleum and oil are found, proved a great threat to the wellness of the fauna and flora as well as to the humans.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Background of study
- literature review
- Oil pollution act of 1990
- Diesel
- Chemical composition
- Volatility of Diesel
- Soil, it's chemical and physical properties
- Site Characterization
- Soil contamination
- Sources of organic contaminants
- Surfactants
- Krafft and cloud points
- Importance of surfactants adsorption in remediation
- Factors affecting soil remediation using surfactants
- Environmental impacts of LAS surfactants
- Soil remediation
- Remediation techniques
- Total Petroleum Hydrocarbons
- Techniques for characrization
- Materials and methods
- Experimental results and discussions
- FI-TR analysis
- Conclusion and recommendations
