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In Situ Conductive Heating for Thermal Desorption of Volatile Organic-Contaminated Soil Based on Solar Energy

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  • Mei Wang

    (Energy School, Xi’an University of Science and Technology, Xi’an 710054, China
    Key Laboratory of Western Mines and Hazards Prevention, Ministry of Education of China, Xi’an 710054, China)

  • Deyang Kong

    (Energy School, Xi’an University of Science and Technology, Xi’an 710054, China)

  • Lang Liu

    (Energy School, Xi’an University of Science and Technology, Xi’an 710054, China)

  • Guoming Wen

    (Energy School, Xi’an University of Science and Technology, Xi’an 710054, China)

  • Fan Zhang

    (Energy School, Xi’an University of Science and Technology, Xi’an 710054, China)

Abstract

A novel conductive heating method using solar energy for soil remediation was introduced in this work. Contaminated industrial heritage sites will affect the sustainable development of the local ecological environment and the surrounding air environment, and frequent exposure will have a negative impact on human health. Soil thermal desorption is an effective means to repair contaminated soil, but thermal desorption is accompanied by a large amount of energy consumption and secondary pollution. Therefore, a trough solar heat collection desorption system (TSHCDS) is proposed, which is applied to soil thermal desorption technology. The effects of different water inlet temperature, water inlet velocity and soil porosity on the evolution of soil temperature field were discussed. The temperature field of contaminated soil can be numerically simulated, and a small experimental platform is built to verify the accuracy of the numerical model for simulation research. It is concluded that the heating effect is the best when the water entry temperature is the highest, at 70 °C, and the temperature of test point 4 is increased by 50.71% and 1.42%, respectively. When the inlet water flow rate is increased from 0.1 m/s to 0.2 m/s, the heating effect is significantly improved; when the inlet water flow rate is increased from 0.5 m/s to 1.5 m/s, the heating effect is not significantly improved. Therefore, when the flow rate is greater than a certain value, the heating effect is not significantly improved. The simulation analysis of soil with different porosity shows that larger porosity will affect the thermal diffusivity, which will make the heat transfer effect worse and reduce the heating effect. The effects of soil temperature distribution on the removal of petroleum hydrocarbon C 6 –C 9 and trichloroethylene (TCE) were studied. The results showed that in the thermal desorption process of petroleum hydrocarbon C 6 –C 9 -contaminated soil, the removal rate of pollutants increased significantly when the average soil temperature reached 80 °C. In the thermal desorption of trichloroethylene-contaminated soil, when the thermal desorption begins, the soil temperature rises rapidly and reaches the target temperature, and a large number of pollutants are removed. At the end of thermal desorption, the removal of both types of pollutants reached the target repair value. This study provides a new feasible method for soil thermal desorption.

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  • Mei Wang & Deyang Kong & Lang Liu & Guoming Wen & Fan Zhang, 2024. "In Situ Conductive Heating for Thermal Desorption of Volatile Organic-Contaminated Soil Based on Solar Energy," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 16(19), pages 1-20, October.
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