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TECHNICAL AND ECONOMIC FEASIBILITY OF SOIL FLUSHING WITH NON-IONIC SURFACTANT TO REMEDIATE GAS WELL CONDENSATEFelske, Daniela and Paul R. Morton, EBA Engineering Consultants Ltd. RemTech 2005: Remediation Technologies Symposium, 19-21 October 2005, Banff, Alberta, Canada. Book of Abstracts, p 81, 2005
A feasibility study was conducted at the pilot scale to assess the
technical and economic viability of cleansing condensate-contaminated soils
surrounding a main gas-gathering pipeline in northern Alberta by in situ soil
flushing with non-ionic surfactant. A commercially available non-ionic
surfactant (Ivey-sol) was evaluated for its solubility-increasing properties
as an economic means of solubilizing soil-bonded condensate inaccessible to ex
situ remediation. An injection/recovery well configuration located within the
condensate spill pathway was used for a series of interwell tests that
involved surfactant injection and its recovery from a nearby pumped recovery
well. Sodium bromide was used as a conservative tracer to assist with the
selection of surfactant and solubilized hydrocarbon samples from the recovery
well for laboratory analysis. Surfactant, hydrocarbon, and tracer breakthrough
curves were plotted for the recovered ground water and provided sufficient
information from which to quantify the surfactant effects on recovered ground
water. The findings demonstrated that over the projected time for the
attainment of soil and ground-water remediation objectives, the non-ionic
surfactant achieved significant solubilization and soil remediation of
condensate at economical rates compared to bioventing, biosparging, or soil
vapor extraction.
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