TY - GEN
T1 - Biogeotechnical engineering applications for environmental protection and restoration
AU - Kavazanjian, Edward
PY - 2019/1/1
Y1 - 2019/1/1
N2 - Soil and groundwater remediation is the most common and most mature application of biogeotechnical engineering in engineering practice. However, new and enhanced biogeotechnical techniques to mitigate soil and groundwater contamination are still being developed. Furthermore, biogeotechnical techniques can contribute to environmental protection and restoration in a variety of other ways. New and enhanced biogeotechnical techniques for soil and groundwater remediation under development include sequestration of groundwater contaminants via co-precipitation of carbonates, precipitation and phosphorous from ground and surface water, and microbial chain elongation. Other biogeotechnical applications in environmental protection and remediation include fugitive dust control, mitigation of soil erosion due to surface water runoff, precipitation of phosphorus and reduction of nitrates in surface water runoff, mitigation of internal erosion of soil, and creation of low permeability subsurface barriers. Replacement of Portland cement as a binder for aggregates also contributes to environmental protection.
AB - Soil and groundwater remediation is the most common and most mature application of biogeotechnical engineering in engineering practice. However, new and enhanced biogeotechnical techniques to mitigate soil and groundwater contamination are still being developed. Furthermore, biogeotechnical techniques can contribute to environmental protection and restoration in a variety of other ways. New and enhanced biogeotechnical techniques for soil and groundwater remediation under development include sequestration of groundwater contaminants via co-precipitation of carbonates, precipitation and phosphorous from ground and surface water, and microbial chain elongation. Other biogeotechnical applications in environmental protection and remediation include fugitive dust control, mitigation of soil erosion due to surface water runoff, precipitation of phosphorus and reduction of nitrates in surface water runoff, mitigation of internal erosion of soil, and creation of low permeability subsurface barriers. Replacement of Portland cement as a binder for aggregates also contributes to environmental protection.
KW - Biogeotechnical
KW - Environmental protection
KW - Remediation
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U2 - 10.1007/978-981-13-2221-1_17
DO - 10.1007/978-981-13-2221-1_17
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85060572140
SN - 9789811322204
T3 - Environmental Science and Engineering
SP - 215
EP - 216
BT - Proceedings of the 8th International Congress on Environmental Geotechnics Volume 1 - Towards a Sustainable Geoenvironment
A2 - Bouazza, Abdelmalek
A2 - Zhan, Liangtong
A2 - Chen, Yunmin
PB - Springer Berlin Heidelberg
T2 - 8th International Congress on Environmental Geotechnics, ICEG 2018
Y2 - 28 October 2018 through 1 November 2018
ER -