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Advantages of using peat gel to reduce the toxicity of soils polluted with oil products

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Cavitation treatment of the mixture of peat and water makes it possible to obtain peat gel that is saturated with active water-soluble forms of humic acids. This work shows the advantages of peat gel in comparison with untreated peat for reducing the toxicity of soils polluted with oil products. Gasoline was added to the soddy-podzolic soil: 1, 5, and 10% of the dry soil. In one series of experiments, lowland peat (50% mass) was added to the soil, in another series—peat gel (5% mass). Within 30 days, the content of oil products (OP) and the acute toxicity of the samples were determined using the infrared spectrophotometry method. Application of peat and peat gel into the soil increased the number of found (OP) in the samples, not allowing differentiation of the sorbent effectiveness. Using bioassay methods, it was shown that application of 5% of peat gel, calculated on the dry weight of the soil, gives the same effect as application of 50% of pure peat. In the soil polluted with gasoline (10% of the mass) and treated with peat gel, the locomotor activity of D. magna and the bioluminescence of E. coli were close to the characteristics of uncontaminated samples; chemotaxis of P. caudatum was activated by 2.6 times as compared with the samples without biosorbent. Thus, technologies for the protection of soils and adjacent environments based on the treatment of soil with peat gel are characterized by a low consumption of biosorbent and an effective reduction in toxicity.

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Olkova, A. Advantages of using peat gel to reduce the toxicity of soils polluted with oil products. Int. J. Environ. Sci. Technol. 19, 3481–3490 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13762-022-03971-w

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