Determination of Petroleum Contamination of Soil Using Dielectric Method

Abstract

As the amounts of petroleum hydrocarbon usage increased, the soil contamination with these compounds have been one of the environmental problems worldwide. This study assessed the feasibility and efficiency whether dielectric method be able to be used to detect petroleum contamination that can leach through the soil particles due to the spreading of petroleum compounds. For this reason, dielectric measurements, in the frequency range from 100 kHz to1000 kHz, were carried out in sand soil samples, partially filled or saturated with solutions of petroleum compounds, at different concentrations. The results suggest that we can detect soil contamination by petroleum contamination using dielectric method and have a different trend between saturated and unsaturated soil.