Abstract
Surfactant-aided soil washing is often proposed for the restoration of aged organic pollutant-contaminated soils. As many of commercial surfactants have been found to be toxic and recalcitrant, the opportunity to use in this process cheap, non-toxic, and biodegradable pollutant-mobilizing agents, such as deoxycholic acid (DA), bovine bile (BB), and the residue resulting from DA extraction from BB (BBR), was studied in this work. A soil historically contaminated by chlorinated anilines and benzenes, thiophenes, and several polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons was suspended at 15% w/v and washed in water or water amended at 1.0% (w/v) with DA, BB, BBR, or Triton X-100 (TX). The resulting effluents were supplemented with nutrients and subjected to aerobic bioremediation. The biogenic agents enhanced the water pollutant elution potential by 230/440%. TX enhanced the same parameter by about 540%; however, it mediated a lower depletion of the initial soil ecotoxicity and a more extensive mobilization of soil constituents with respect to the biogenic agents. Furthermore, TX adversely affected the biotreatability of resulting effluents, by adversely affecting the growth of cultivable bacterial biomass and the structure of eubacterial community of the effluent. On the contrary, the biogenic agents, and in particular DA and BB, enhanced the effluents bioremediation, by sustaining the growth and increasing the complexity of the effluent eubacterial communities. Thus, DA and BB are very promising additives for an effective and environmental friendly soil washing treatment of aged (chloro)organics contaminated soils.
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