More technical info about our solution

[Diego Avilés]

Useful links:

http://www.humintech.com/001/environment/information/company.html

http://www.genomequebec.com/16-en/environment-capsule-decontaminating-soils-with-mother-natures-help.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soil_contamination#Cleanup_options

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phytoremediation

Some highlights:

Phytoremediation (from Ancient Greek φυτο (phyto), meaning "plant", and Latin remedium, meaning "restoring balance") describes the treatment of environmental problems (bioremediation) through the use of plants that mitigate the environmental problem without the need to excavate the contaminant material and dispose of it elsewhere.

Phytoremediation consists of mitigating pollutant concentrations in contaminated soils, water, or air, with plants able to contain, degrade, or eliminate metals, pesticides, solvents,explosives, crude oil and its derivatives, and various other contaminants from the media that contain them.

“Our goal is to develop an eco-friendly technology to clean up polluted soils using plants and microorganisms, like bacteria and mushrooms. These organisms use oil as a source of food. They feed on it and break it down, gradually decontaminating the soil. Heavy metals are a different story, since they cannot be broken down. We want to use microorganisms so that the heavy metals can be soaked up into the stems and leaves of trees, which can then be harvested and incinerated. The ash residue would be sent to processing centres. Our dream is to eventually convert old industrial sites into community gardens, parks and other clean and useful urban spaces.”

Advantages and limitations

• Advantages:

• the cost of the phytoremediation is lower than that of traditional processes both in situ and ex situ

• the plants can be easily monitored

• the possibility of the recovery and re-use of valuable metals (by companies specializing in “phyto mining”)

• it is potentially the least harmful method because it uses naturally occurring organisms and preserves the environment in a more natural state.

• Limitations:

• phytoremediation is limited to the surface area and depth occupied by the roots.

• slow growth and low biomass require a long-term commitment

• with plant-based systems of remediation, it is not possible to completely prevent the leaching of contaminants into the groundwater (without the complete removal of the contaminated ground, which in itself does not resolve the problem of contamination)

• the survival of the plants is affected by the toxicity of the contaminated land and the general condition of the soil.

• bio-accumulation of contaminants, especially metals, into the plants which then pass into the food chain, from primary level consumers upwards or requires the safe disposal of the affected plant material.

Soil Remediation
in Canada

In Canada, soil remediation is a $30 billion market. In the last 10 years, the field has grown annually and the number of contaminated sites discovered has almost doubled. According to the Government of Canada: “Under its existing Federal Contaminated Sites Action Plan (FCSAP), $245 million has already been allocated for federal contaminated sites in 2009 and 2010. These funds and the remaining $547 million FCSAP funds will have contributed to the creation of close to 590 remediation projects country wide by the end of 2011.” And that’s only the tip of the iceberg!

Source: Invest in Canada

Diego Avilés A.
Ingeniero Civil Industrial
Consultor Asociado - Chile Finance Advisors S.A.
dav...@chilefa.cl
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[ottopangestu]

Hi guys,
I got some info about our topic, hope it will help

[Diego Avilés]

This is good info!

Thanks for researching around.

I'll write you personally to coordinate the tech feasibility analysis.

Diego A.

[hernan vidal]

i have found and useful link to do our research.

http://www.environmental-expert.com/companies/keyword-soil-remediation-1020/order-recommended/page-2



cheers.




2013/4/15 Diego Avilés <djav...@gmail.com>: