Electrochemically Assisted Remediation of Contaminated Soils

lt;p>- Prof. Dr. Manuel Andrés Rodrigo was born in Plasencia, Spain, in 1970. He obtained his PhD in chemical engineering in 1997 at the Universidad of Valencia and is currently full professor of chemical engineering at the Universidad Castilla La Mancha since 2000. His research is mainly centered on electrolysis and electrocoagulation of water and wastewater, high temperature PEM fuel cells, electrolytic oxidant production, soil electro-remediation of contaminated and microbiological fuel cells, field in which he has consolidated research with expert knowledge in the electrochemical-energy-environmental frontier. He has published 334 peer-reviewed papers, 70 reports for companies, 5 patents and 2 book chapters.

- Prof. Dr. Elisama Vieira dos Santos was born in Santa Cruz, Brazil, in 1987. She obtained her PhD degree in chemical engineering at UFRN in 2015. Currently, she is assistant professor in the School of Sciences and Engineering Technologies at the UFRN. She has been active in the field of environmental electrochemistry: electrochemical oxidation of organic pollutants for wastewater treatment, the role of electrode material in the electrochemical incineration of organic compounds and applicability of electroanalytical techniques for detecting heavy metals. In the last years, she has dedicated great efforts to the treatment of soils by electrokinetic remediation and coupling electrochemical approaches for soil depollution (electrochemical oxidation, washing soil, sonolysis, photolysis, photo-electrolysis, sono-electrolysis). The cutting-edge research developed and the relevance of her scientific contributions has been internationally recognized with the prestigious international award, L'OREAL-UNESCO "For Women in Sciences".  

Part 1 1 Physicochemical and hydrodynamic aspects of soil.- 2  Fundamental of electrokinetic processes.- 3 Fundamental of Reactive and Thermal Processes in Electrochemically Assisted Soil Remediation.- 4 Conceptual and mathematical modeling of the transport of pollutants in soil by electric fields.- Part 2 5 Treatment of soil washing solutions by electrochemical advanced oxidation 6 Electrokinetic soil flushing.- 7 Electrokinetic remediation of soil polluted with inorganic ionic species.- 8 Fenton processes for the remediation of polluted soil.- 9 Coupling of anodic oxidation and soil remediation processes.- 10 Persulfate in the remediation of soil and groundwater contaminated by organic compounds.- 11 Electro-phytoremediation of Cropland and Mine-tailings Polluted by Mercury using IrO₂-Ta₂O₅½Ti electrodes, Lavandula vera and Solanum tuberosum.- 12 Electro-bioremediation of polluted soil.- 13 The Soil and Groundwater Remediation with Zero Valent Iron Nanoparticles.- 14 Adsorption and ion exchange permeable reactive barriers.- 15 Electrochemically-Assisted Thermal-Based Technologies for Soil Remediation.- 16 Electrochemically assisted dewatering.- Part 3 17 Fundamentals of the scale-up of the electrochemically assisted soil remediation processes.- 18 Electrochemical Technologies for Petroleum Contaminated Soils.- 19 Treatment of gaseous effluents produced during electrochemically assisted soil remediation processes.- 20 Solar-powered electrokinetic remediation for treatment to soil polluted with organic compounds.- 21 Electrokinetic Processes-Directions for Future Research and Constraints.