Soil and Groundwater Remediation Technologies

Yong Sik Ok, PhD, is a Full Professor at and Global Research Director of Korea University in Seoul, Korea. He currently serves as Director of the Sustainable Waste Management Program for the Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU). Jörg Rinklebe, PhD, is Professor for Soil and Groundwater Management at the University of Wuppertal, Germany. Recently, Professor Rinklebe was elected as Vice President of the International Society of Trace Element Biogeochemistry (ISTEB). Deyi Hou, PhD, is an Associate Professor at the School of Environment of Tsinghua University. Daniel C.W. Tsang, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Honorary Associate Professor at the University of Queensland. Filip M.G. Tack, PhD, is Professor in Biogeochemistry of Trace Elements at the Department of Green Chemistry and Technology at Ghent University. He is Head of the Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry and Applied Ecochemistry of Ghent University.

1. Overview of Soil and Groundwater Remediation. 2. Sustainable Remediation and Socio-Environmental Management at Contaminated Sites. 3. Basic Principles of Risk Assessment of Contaminated Sites. 4. International Trace Element Regulation Limits in Soils. 5. Emerging Contaminants in Soil and Groundwater. 6. Arsenic Removal from Water Using Biochar-Based Sorbents: Production, Characterization, and Sequestration Mechanisms. 7. Potential Value of Biowastes in the Remediation of Toxic Metal(oid)-Contaminated Soils. 8. Microbiological Interfacial Behaviors in the Removal of Polycyclic Hydrocarbons from Soil and Water. 9. Remediation of Soil and Groundwater Contaminated with Per- and Poly-Fluoroalkyl Substances (PFASs). 10. Phytomanagement of Pollutantas in Soil and Groundwater. 11. Layered Double Hydroxides for Soil and Groundwater Remediation. 12. Neuroremediation: The Next Generation of In Situ Groundwater Remediation Technologies. 13. Reclamation of Salt-Affected Soils. 14. Integrated Soil Remediation by Chemical-Enhanced Extraction and Biochar Immobilization for Potentially Toxic Elements. 15. Green and Sustainable Stabilization/Solidification. 16. Treatment Strategies for Wastewater from Hydraulic Fracturing. 17. Societal Support for Remedication Technologies. 18. Post-Remediation Site Management. 19. Electrical Resistivity Tomography Monitoring and Modeling of Preferential Flow in Unsaturated Soils. 20. Determination of the Unsaturated Hydraulic Conductivity of Soil: Theoretical and In Situ Approaches. 21. New Technologies for Monitoring Contaminated Soil and Groundwater. 22. Selected Examples of Remediation and Reactivation of Old Sites in the Ruhr Region.