University
of Alabama Chemical Engineering Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Introduction
Remediation of oil-contaminated soils has been
studied by the researchers in the Department of Chemical Engineering at The University of
Alabama since 1991.Their objective is to
design and develop an economically effective system for cleaning crude oil-contaminated
soil.Artificially contaminated beach sand,
silty loam, Sucarnoochee soil and field samples of contaminated soil have been
successfully batch-cleaned in the laboratory by floatation-agglomeration.The process is being scaled-up and converted to a
continuous process to increase capacity and to reduce costs.
Contact
Information: Department of Chemical Engineering
University of Alabama
P.O. Box 870203 Tuscaloosa AL, U.S.A.
Tel. (205) 348-4072, Fax: (205) 348-7558
http://www.bama.ua.edu/~chemeng
E-mail: chemeng@bama.ua.edu
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