Soil Clean-up

Faculty of Agricultural Science and Landscape Architecture

Version 8.0 of 05/02/2022

44M0080

Bodensanierung

Landschaftsbau (Master) (M.Eng.)

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1. Overview
2. Excavation
3. Site clearance operation
4. Soil containment
   4.1 Surface cover
   4.2 Side barriers installation
   4.3 Encapsulation
   4.4 Vitrification
   4.5 Stabilization
5. Soil decontamination
   5.1 Soil preparation
   5.2 Soil washing and extraction
   5.3 Bioremediation
   5.4 Phytoremediation
   5.5 Thermal treatment
   5.6 Electroremediation
6. Groundwater treatment
   6.1 Introduction
   6.2 Pump-and-treat (P&T)
   6.3 Agent infiltration
   6.4 Permeable reactive barrier (PRB) and funnel-and-gate (F&G)
   6.5 Air sparging
7. Soil vapour treatment 7.1 Soil vapour extraction (SVE) 7.2 Steam enhanced extraction (SEE)
8. Natural attenuation
9. Remediation planning

Knowledge Broadening
The students know about all innovative techniques on the subject of soil and groundwater clean-up.
Knowledge Deepening
The students are able to describe, to interpret and to categorise comparatively individual processes.
Instrumental Skills and Competences
Students apply different processes within the framework of soil clean-up planning and assess them in order to find the optimal method.
Communicative Skills and Competences
The students are able to present individual result steps of case studies publicly.
Systemic Skills and Competences

Lectures, tutorial

Basics of Soil Science and Soil Protection

Meuser, Helmut

Meuser, Helmut

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Franzius/Wolf/Brandt (1995, 2014): Handbuch der Altlastensanierung. Lose-Blatt-Sammlung. C.F.Müller, Heidelberg.Stegmann/Brunner/Calmano/Matz (2001): Treatment of Contaminated Soil. Springer, Berlin.Genske (2003): Urban Land - Degradation, Investigation, Remediation. Springer, Berlin.Meuser (2013): Soil remediation and rehabilitation. Springer, Dordrecht.

• Viva Voce
• Two-Hour Written Examination

Exercise

standard examination: oral examination

1 Term

Only Winter Term

German and English