Oil-contaminated soil remediation technology by microwave thermal desorption

초록

In this paper, the feasibility of microwave thermal desorption technology was investigated to treat the oil-contaminated soil in military base. In recent, microwave thermal desorption technology has been newly developed which can substantially reduce the remediation cost of oil-polluted soil with low electric power consumption in Korea. This technology uses MIP (Microwave Irradiated Pyrogen) or microwave absorber in the microwave thermal desorption system in order to effectively develop the microwave heating temperature to treat the oil-contaminated soil. From the lab test, it is found that this technology has a potential to rapidly complete the remediation process of the oil-contaminated soil with high efficiency.