Benefits of vegetation for soils with organic contaminants

LC Davis, S Castro-Diaz, Q Zhang… - Critical Reviews in Plant …, 2002 - Taylor & Francis
Referee: Dr. Paul E. Olson, Colorado State University, Department of Biology, E414
Anatomy/Zoology Building, Fort Collins, CO 80523-1878 Plants have many beneficial effects …

Phytoremediation of BTEX contaminated soil by Canna× generalis

M Boonsaner, S Borrirukwisitsak… - … and environmental safety, 2011 - Elsevier
Bioaccumulation experiments showed that the canna (Canna× generalis) could accumulate
BTEX (benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene and xylenes) from root zone and rhizome zone soil …

Bioremediation of non-aqueous phase liquids (NAPLS) polluted soil and water resources

PK Gupta, BK Yadav - Environmental Pollutants and their …, 2017 - api.taylorfrancis.com
Pollution of natural resources due to release of several pollutants including hydrocarbons is
a key human and ecological health concern. The hydrocarbons, like nonaqueous phase …

Enhanced bioremediation of BTEX contaminated groundwater in pot-scale wetlands

S Basu, BK Yadav, S Mathur - Environmental Science and Pollution …, 2015 - Springer
Pot-scale wetlands were used to investigate the role of plants in enhancing the performance
of engineered bioremediation techniques like biostimulation, bioaugmentation, and …

[PDF][PDF] Urban solid waste landfill selection by SDSS. Case study: Hamadan

M Kahvand, N Gheitarani, M Khanian… - Environment …, 2015 - bibliotekanauki.pl
One of the major problems human beings are confronted with in urban setting is the removal
of urban waste. This problem has persuaded the urban authorities to use various tools such …

Temporal moment-based approach to understand the dissolved-phase LNAPL recovery and associated characteristics in the porous system under dynamic …

A Guleria, PK Gupta, S Chakma… - … , Ecosystems and Society, 2023 - iwaponline.com
The dissolved-phase hydrocarbon recovery can be the first step in decontaminating the soil–
water system if spilled with light/dense non-aqueous phase liquid (L/D-NAPL). This study …

Modeling and design of phytoremediation

LC Davis, LE Erickson, M Narayanan… - … and control of …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Modeling and design of effective treatment systems involving green plants is based on
thermodynamics (phase equilibria) and transport (diffusion and advection) in the soil …

Remediation of LNAPL contaminated groundwater using plant-assisted biostimulation and bioaugmentation methods

BK Yadav, FA Ansari, S Basu, A Mathur - Water, Air, & Soil Pollution, 2014 - Springer
Different cases of bioremediation technique were experimentally investigated here for
decontaminating light non-aqueous phase liquid (LNAPL)-polluted groundwater collected …

Movement of chlorinated solvents and other volatile organics through plants monitored by Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) spectrometry

LC Davis, S Vanderhoof, J Dana, K Selk… - Journal of …, 1998 - newprairiepress.org
Plants have a large capacity to transfer water from soil to the atmosphere. Soluble
contaminants may be carried with that water, with a relative extent of transfer that depends …

Modeling the fate of toluene in a chamber with alfalfa plants: 1. Theory and modeling concepts

M Narayanan, JC Tracy, LC Davis… - Journal of Hazardous …, 1998 - newprairiepress.org
A model was developed to investigate the fate of organic contaminants in soils in the
presence of vegetation. The model has two modules. The first module simulates the soil …