Sediments are transported by the flowing water then build up on the bottom of water bodies as the materials settle. Contaminated sediments are composed of soils, sand, organic matters, and other minerals that accumulate on the bottom of water bodies and contain toxic or hazardous materials at levels that may adversely affect human health or the environment. The contaminated deposits can be decomposed and released into liquid phase by dramatic changes on environmental conditions. However, the contaminated deposits have a potential of causing changes of nature water system, especially for aquatic livings. Sediments contaminated by light non-aqueous-phase liquids (e.g., fuel oil) and heavy metal are prevalent and of a great concern. The major advantage of Fenton-like oxidation process is that the reagent components are safe to handle and environmentally benign. However, protective enclosure of contaminants with aged sediment matrices and the hydrophobic nature of contaminants limit their accessibility to treatment agents; these obstacles prevent treatment efforts from widespread successes. The interactions of hydrophobic contaminants with the soil matrix in various ways often limit contaminant availability for remediation. In order to overcome this limitation and increase contact, a novel extraction technique that utilized oxidation agent and elevated pressure in consecutive cycles of compression and decompression was developed and applied to soil slurry in the presence of chelating or oxidation agent.
The objective of this study was to design a pressure-cycling system that integrates the oxidation agent. This system has the following advantages over traditional chemical treatment: (1) increased process speed, (2) lower operating costs, and (3) the transition metal elements can catalyze the oxidized pollutants. In this study, fuel oil was selected as the target compounds to evaluate the effectiveness of pressure-cycling system on the treatment of fuel oil contaminated sediment. The oxidizing agent used in this study was H2O2. The operating parameters included system pressure, pressure cycles, oxidizing agent concentration, and reaction time. Results show that approximately 38% of TPH was removed after 120 min of reaction with Fenton-like oxidation without pressurization. However, the removal efficiency increased to 47% under the pressure of 10 bar. Thus, pressure-assisted oxidation system is able to accelerate the oxidation reaction, and cause the remove the removal of TPH more effectively. To enhance TPH removal efficiency effectively and reduce the oxidant amount used, water flushing combined with pressure-assisted system as a pretreatment process was applied. Results show that TPH removal efficiency can be significantly enhanced and the amount of oxidant usage can be reduced when the pressurized water flushing was applied before the oxidation process.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0907109-113124 |
| Date | 07 September 2009 |
| Creators | Chien, Shao-yi |
| Contributors | Tzung-yuh Yeh, Chiu-jung Liao, Chih-ming Kao, Pui-k wan Hong, Chih-huang Weng |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0907109-113124 |
| Rights | not_available, Copyright information available at source archive |
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