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Application of electrical resistivity tool to monitor soil contamination by herbicide


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1 National Environmental Engineering Research Institute, Nehru Marg, Nagpur 440 020, India; Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research, Ghaziabad 201 002, India
2 National Environmental Engineering Research Institute, Nehru Marg, Nagpur 440 020, India
3 Department of Environment, Land and Infrastructure Engineering – DIATI, Politecnico di Torino, C.so Ducadegli Abruzzi 24, 10129 Torinio, Italy
4 Department of Applied Science and Technology – DISAT, Politecnico di Torino, C.so Ducadegli Abruzzi 24, 10129 Torino, Italy
 

The interpretation of the resistivity method depends on acquired resistivity contrast between the contaminated object and the host matrix. The present attempt reports preliminary understanding of the sensitivity of resistivity method to monitor herbicide 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D) contamination in order to produce a reference dataset to develop a geophysical method to monitor soil bioremediation of herbicidecontaminated soil. Laboratory level experiments were carried out to define the correlation between herbicide concentration (Hc) and resistivity in non-polarizable (milli q double distilled water of 5.9 μs/cm EC) and sandy soil matrix. The results confirm that the resistivity method can be used for the purpose of monitoring herbicide by adopting formation factor as 2.5 for the sandy soil matrix. The results indicate that moisture content of soil affects the resistivity parameter and it should be considered in the interpretation of data.

Keywords

Agriculture geophysics, contamination, electrical resistivity method, herbicide.
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Authors

Pandurang Balwant
National Environmental Engineering Research Institute, Nehru Marg, Nagpur 440 020, India; Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research, Ghaziabad 201 002, India
Kavita Bramhanwade
National Environmental Engineering Research Institute, Nehru Marg, Nagpur 440 020, India
Veligeti Jyothi
National Environmental Engineering Research Institute, Nehru Marg, Nagpur 440 020, India
Paras R. Pujari
National Environmental Engineering Research Institute, Nehru Marg, Nagpur 440 020, India; Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research, Ghaziabad 201 002, India
Shalini Dhyani
National Environmental Engineering Research Institute, Nehru Marg, Nagpur 440 020, India; Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research, Ghaziabad 201 002, India
Parikshit Verma
National Environmental Engineering Research Institute, Nehru Marg, Nagpur 440 020, India
Alberto Godio
Department of Environment, Land and Infrastructure Engineering – DIATI, Politecnico di Torino, C.so Ducadegli Abruzzi 24, 10129 Torinio, Italy
Fulvia Chiampo
Department of Applied Science and Technology – DISAT, Politecnico di Torino, C.so Ducadegli Abruzzi 24, 10129 Torino, Italy

Abstract


The interpretation of the resistivity method depends on acquired resistivity contrast between the contaminated object and the host matrix. The present attempt reports preliminary understanding of the sensitivity of resistivity method to monitor herbicide 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D) contamination in order to produce a reference dataset to develop a geophysical method to monitor soil bioremediation of herbicidecontaminated soil. Laboratory level experiments were carried out to define the correlation between herbicide concentration (Hc) and resistivity in non-polarizable (milli q double distilled water of 5.9 μs/cm EC) and sandy soil matrix. The results confirm that the resistivity method can be used for the purpose of monitoring herbicide by adopting formation factor as 2.5 for the sandy soil matrix. The results indicate that moisture content of soil affects the resistivity parameter and it should be considered in the interpretation of data.

Keywords


Agriculture geophysics, contamination, electrical resistivity method, herbicide.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18520/cs%2Fv120%2Fi10%2F1636-1639