نوع مقاله : مقاله پژوهشی

نویسندگان

1 گروه‌ علوم خاک، دانشگاه علوم کشاورزی ومنابع ‌طبیعی‌، گرگان، ایران

2 گروه علوم خاک، دانشگاه علوم کشاورزی ومنابع طبیعی، گرگان، ایران

چکیده

در سال‌های اخیر بیوچار برای کاهش یا از بین بردن آلودگی بعنوان اصلاحگر خاک بسیار مورد توجه قرار گرفته است. در این راستا رفتار سینتیکی بیوچار درکاهش آلاینده‌ گازوئیل خاک، تغییرات این آلاینده با زمان و تغییرات فعالیت میکروبی در یک دوره زمانی 60 روزه مورد بررسی قرار گرفت. خاک آلوده به گازوئیل از اطراف مخزن گازوئیل مستقر در پالایشگاه شیراز جمع‌آوری و پس از سنجش میزان هیدروکربن نفتی کل (TPH) اولیه و ویژگی‌های فیزیکی و شیمایی خاک آلوده، نمونه‌های خاک 700 گرمی حاوی بیوچار کاه و کلش گندم آماده شده و بیوچار در اندازه‌های یک و دو میلی‌متر و مقدار وزنی 100-80-60-40-20 گرم بر کیلوگرم بصورت کرت‌های دوبار خرد شده در زمان بر پایه طرح کاملا تصادفی با سه تکرار انجام شده‌است. نتایج مربوط به تعیین مدل سنتیک کاهش آلودگی در طی این فرآیند نشان داد که سینتیک کاهش TPH، از نوع معادله درجه اول بود؛ به‌طوری که در 28 روز اول آزمایش، سرعت تجزیه TPH بصورت افزایشی بود، و پس از 35 روز از شروع آزمایش، سرعت تجزیه ترکیبات آلاینده کاهش یافت. ثابت تجزیه زیستی (k) برای خاک تیمارشده با اصلاحگر بالاتر بود و زمان نیمه عمر کمتری نسبت به خاک آلوده شاهد داشت. با افزایش وزن اصلاحگر نیمه‌عمر کاهش و سرعت ثابت تجزیه در تیمار وزن 100 گرم و اندازه 1 میلیمتری افزایش یافت. برعکس، با افزایش اندازه ذرات اصلاحگر، نیمه‌عمر افزایش و ثابت تجزیه کاهش یافت. اصلاحگر بیوچار بعنوان استراتژی ارزان و نسبتا جدید برای پاکسازی یا کاهش آلایندگی هیدروکربنی خاک، می‌تواند مورد استفاده قرار گیرد.

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عنوان مقاله [English]

Changes in The Hydrocarbon Pollution Rate of Soil Containing Biochar Modifier (Case Study: Soil Around Shiraz Refinery)

نویسندگان [English]

  • Mina Hashemi Tazangi 1
  • Soheila Ebrahimi 2
  • Reza Ghorbani Nasrabadi 1
  • Seyed Alireza Movaheddi Naeeni 2

1 Department of Soil Science, Gorgan University of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, Gorgan, Iran

2 Department of Soil Science, Gorgan University of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, Gorgan, Iran

چکیده [English]

Background and objectives: Hydrocarbons derived from petroleum and gas have gained increased attention as the most important fossil resources of energy as well as crude material for petrochemical industries. However, environmental issues such as pollution due to extraction, exploitation and transportation of these materials has raised concerns as an environmental warning. In recent years, utilization of biochar (via biomass burning) has been regarded as a soil refiner to reduce or eliminate pollution, especially in in situ studies. Biochar is a product rich in carbon, which is produced during the pyrolysis of various types of woods, fertilizers, leaves, straws as well as agricultural wastes under abiotic conditions. It seems that biochar can be suggested as a suitable compound to manage biomass wastes as well as to enhance soil fertility. Thus, kinetic behavior of biochar in reduction of gasoil pollution of soil, its changes of this pollutant over time and changes in the microbial activity in this time period were investigated.
Materials and methods: The soil polluted with gasoil was collected from the vicinity of the gasoil tanker located in Shiraz refinery. The soil had been polluted for years due to the leakage of gasoil. Then, after the measurement of the initial total petroleum hydrocarbon content and physical and chemical properties (soil texture via hydrometry, electrical conductivity in the saturated paste, available phosphorous using the Olsen method, total nitrogen using the Kjehdahl method, pH of soil in the saturated paste, soil carbon using the Walkey and Black method) of the polluted soil, 700 gram soil samples containing wheat straw biochar at one and two mm sizes and 20, 40, 60, 80 and 100 g kg-1 weight doses were prepared as split-split-plot experiment based on a completely randomized design with three replicates. The samples were then rested in a 50% constant humidity for four weeks at 28 ± 2 °C, and were aerated two times a week. Finally, the results of the changes in the total petroleum hydrocarbon and microbial activity over time were recorded. A three- parameter sigmoidal function was fitted to the data related to the total petroleum hydrocarbon and microbial activity over time. Analysis of variance was carried out using the SAS software v. 9.0. The leas significant difference method (LSD) was used to compare the means. The changes in the total petroleum hydrocarbons and microbial activity were analyzed using the SigmaPlot software v. 12.5. Microsoft Excel v. 2013 and SigmaPlot v. 12.5 were used to draw the figures.
Results: According to the results of the present study, the application of biochar had a significant effect on the reduction of gasoil pollution of the soil. The results related to determination of the kinetic model for the reduction of pollution during the biochar application process showed that the kinetic of reduction in total petroleum hydrocarbon was of first order equation; so that in the first 28 days of the experiment, the rate of total petroleum hydrocarbon degradation was increasing, whereas it decreased 35 days after the beginning of the experiment. Biodegradation constant (k) was higher for the soil treated with the refiner and these soils had a lower half-life compared with the polluted control. The rate of reduction in half-life and Biodegradation constant rate increased with increasing refiner weight. On the contrary, half-life increased and Biodegradation constant decreased with increasing refiner size. The results indicated a significant difference in the traits as a result of applying various sizes and weights of refiner. Weekly monitoring of the pollution degradation and bioremediation performance in all refiner sizes and weights showed that the lowest time to 50% pollutant removal was obtained in 100g kg-1 and 1 mm size treatment. Investigation of the respiration under the mentioned conditions showed that the lower sizes and higher weights of biochar led to improved hydrocarbon degradation. Also, according to the results, biological efficiency (E%) of biochar was calculated 40.05 at the end of the 60 day period.
Conclusion: According to the present study, biochar refiner has a great potential for utilization as a cheap and relatively new strategy to eradicate or reduce soil hydrocarbon pollution. This method is compatible with the in situ bioremediation in the soils polluted with petroleum and other petroleum derivate compounds, due to being less costly and posing less hydrocarbon threat to the environment. It is also a suitable tool to devise bioremediation strategies.

کلیدواژه‌ها [English]

  • biochar
  • gasoil pollution
  • kinetic model
  • soil
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