Design and application of surface PRBs for PCB remediation in the Canadian Arctic

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• 作者：Indra K. Kalinovich^a ; ^{indrakal@buffalo.edu} ; ^{indra@tricolour.queensu.ca} ; Allison Rutter^b ; R. Kerry Rowe^c ; John S. Poland^b
• 关键词：PCBs ; Remediation ; Permeable reactive barrier ; Activated carbon ; Cold regions
• 刊名：Journal of Environmental Management
• 出版年：2012
• 期刊代码：82_03014797
• 类别：env
• 出版时间：30 June, 2012
• 卷：101
• 期：Complete
• 页码：124-133
• 文件大小：1266 K

摘要

Over the course of three years, several surface permeable reactive barriers were designed and constructed to deal with leftover site contamination at a site located on the summit of Resolution Island, Nunavut, just southeast of Baffin Island at 61掳 35鈥睳 and 60掳 40鈥瞁. The site was part of a North American military defense system established in the 1950s that became heavily contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) during and subsequent to, its operational years. Each of the three barrier designs has a different configuration, to meet the needs of the targeted remediation area, based on their unique contaminant histories. Modifications were made to the barrier designs based on both field observations and laboratory results. The comparison of field and laboratory results indicated that areas with higher concentrations of PCB contamination behaved differently than areas with lower concentrations of PCB contaminated soil. Previous laboratory studies only partially replicated field observations and results. It had previously been hypothesized that particle retention was the most important factor in trapping and capturing PCBs. However, rinsed filter samples from the field indicated that partitioning of PCBs between contaminated soil and granular activated carbon (GAC) filter particles were occurring at levels of 62聽卤聽11%, suggesting that sequestration of the PCBs from the environment should be a primary focus of the barrier. This sequestration requires both particle retention (within the granular sorptive filters) as well as maintained contact time between particles for sorption processes to proceed. This mechanism - partitioning of PCB to GAC - was more important in areas with higher PCB concentration. These results suggest that it may be possible to tailor future barrier designs to their unique site histories and locations.