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Researchers have developed a new UPCT method for measuring soil contamination of the gas stations.
The system, which has won a patent recently improved quantitative and qualitative techniques employed today as it reduces costs, determines the ideal place to polls and identifies contaminated by hydrocarbons in the subsurface areas.
The method combines techniques geophysical, geochemical and boreholes and developed in the doctoral thesis of Maria Rosa Rosales, called "Screening and Assessment of soil contamination by buried storage tanks for hydrocarbons in service stations", the doctoral program Mining, Environment and Sustainable Development.
In developing methodology have been put to various extent a chemical analysis according to international standards that achieve optimal results that soil samples are not contaminated, indicating the PhD.
The new methodology is useful for mandatory reports to the Administration.
Professor Angel Face, codirector of the thesis, highlights the innovative character of the method.
"The tests performed show the high reliability of the diagnostic soil," he says.
To measure soil contamination, researchers use the latest equipment.
Geophysics applied to ground allows access noninvasively, ie knowing what is in the underground without trenching, chases or damage the pavement service stations.
Multidisciplinary team
This work involved researchers of Agricultural, Chemical Engineering, Roads and Mines.
The thesis, directed by Professors Ángel Faz, Agronomists, and Pedro Martinez of the School of Civil Engineering, has received funding from the Seneca Foundation.
Source: UPCT
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