Bioremediation of diesel and gasoline-contaminated soil by co-vermicomposting amended with activated sludge: Diesel and gasoline degradation and kinetics.

Environ Pollut

Research Center for Environmental Health Technology, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran; Department of Environmental Health Engineering, School of Public Health, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR, Iran. Electronic address:

Published: August 2020

Present study aims to examine the efficiency of co-vermicomposting amended with activated sludge and E. fetida earthworm for bioremediation of diesel and gasoline from contaminated soil. The diesel and gasoline removal efficiency and degradation rates coefficients were estimated with gas chromatography (GC) analysis and first-order kinetics. The removal of gasoline and diesel in different co-vermicomposting processes with and without E. fetida ranged between 65-100% and 24.94-63.93%, respectively within 90- day experiment. Removal of gasoline and diesel increased in soil with addition of earthworm (E. fetida); higher degradation rate coefficients (k) were observed for co-vermicomposting with earthworm compared with co-vermicomposting processes. The highest k (0.014) for diesel degradation was estimated for microcosm reactor 4 (R4), where high numbers of E. fetida accelerate the less biodegradable organic contaminant from the soil matrices. The reasonable survival rates of earthworms in exposure to high concentration of petroleum-derivatives contaminated soils indicated increased activity of ligninolytic diesel-degrading earthworms and microorganisms. Therefore, co-vermicomposting amended with activated sludge is suggested as feasible and promising technologies for bioremediation of high content of organic contaminants from the soil matrices.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2020.114584DOI Listing

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