Soil Remediation in a Railroad field of Korea

초록

Soil contamination is one of serious environmental problems. It is necessary to remediate the contaminated railroad site. In this study, chemical and biological remediation methods were used separately to remove various pollutants from the contaminated soil. As a result, TPH concentration decreased under its precaution level and heavy metals were removed by solvent extraction combining with soil washing. In conclusion, target site was cleaned up through the field application of four different remediation methods.