Abstract
Assessment of the Efficiency of Using Organic Waste from the Brewing Industry for Bioremediation of Oil-Contaminated Soils
Highlights
Oil is one of the basic human needs in the modern world, which is exactly why the oil industry presently is among the most dynamically developing industries [Litvinenko et al 2017]
Oil pollution of soils is the cause of intensive transformations of morphological, physical, chemical, and biological characteristics of the soil, which lead to the disruption of the environmental balance in the soil biocenosis, decrease in the ability of soils to self-cleaning and self-recovery, inhibition of microorganisms, oppression or degradation of vegetation cover and depression of the functional activity of flora and fauna, changes in the structure of the soil, reduction of its aeration and drainage, disturbance of the water regime, changes in the oxidation reduction conditions [Akhmadiev and Rudakova 2013, Xu and Johnson 1995, Nizamzade 2014]
Toxicity of oil and petroleum products for living organisms is primarily associated with the damaging effect of these pollutants on cell membranes; in this regard, the increase in environmentally caused public health disorders is progressively more often associated with the escalating presence of hydrocarbons in the human environment [Agamuthu et al 2010]
Summary
Waste from the brewing industry mainly consists of organic substances of high humidity and is the source of a large number of organomineral compounds; in addition, it does not contain any poisonous substances, pathogens and helminth eggs [Dessalew et al 2017]. In this regard, the main purpose of the scientific study was to assess the possibility of using organic brewing waste to improve the efficiency of bioremediation of oil-contaminated soils. The review of literature identified several studies indicative of the potential of sparging as a
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