Articles techniques et présentations

A lot of techniques are developed to treat soils polluted by hydrocarbons pollutants: incineration, thermal treatment, extraction, chemical oxidation, bioremediation… Some of these techniques are very energy consuming (incineration, thermal treatment…) and often need a subsequent treatment of the generated gases or liquids. Of all the decontamination methods, bioremediation appears to be the least damaging and most environmentally acceptable technique. However, some problems are encountered when dealing with this technique, for example slow degradation kinetics or even stopping of the biological reactions.