The paper deals with the treatment and reuse of submarine sediments, i.e. a relevant environmental issue due to the annual huge quantities of dredged sediments (over half contaminated) in Europe. In a vision of sustainability and circular economy, stabilization and solidification (S/S) treatments represent an interesting solution for both environmental protection and reuse of sediments in engineering works. The investigation involved polluted clayey sediments taken up to depths of about 1.5m from the seafloor of the Gulf of Taranto (South of Italy). The research investigates the effects of a treatment with cement and lime enhanced by the addition of green additives, such as active carbon and biochar, for chemical remediation. The last one is a promising and cheap adsorbent material, that is the by-product of - mainly - agricultural waste pyrolysis. The first results suggest that appropriate mix designs and curing times could allow the reuse of sediments by both improving their geotechnical characteristics and making them environmentally acceptable in accordance to end-of-waste criteria.

Stabilization and recycling of contaminated marine sediments / Todaro, Francesco; Vitone, Claudia; Notarnicola, Michele. - In: E3S WEB OF CONFERENCES. - ISSN 2267-1242. - ELETTRONICO. - 92:(2019). (Intervento presentato al convegno 7th International Symposium on Deformation Characteristics of Geomaterials, IS-Glasgow 2019 tenutosi a Glasgow, Scotland nel June 26-28, 2019) [10.1051/e3sconf/20199211004].

Stabilization and recycling of contaminated marine sediments

Francesco Todaro;Claudia Vitone;Michele Notarnicola
2019-01-01

Abstract

The paper deals with the treatment and reuse of submarine sediments, i.e. a relevant environmental issue due to the annual huge quantities of dredged sediments (over half contaminated) in Europe. In a vision of sustainability and circular economy, stabilization and solidification (S/S) treatments represent an interesting solution for both environmental protection and reuse of sediments in engineering works. The investigation involved polluted clayey sediments taken up to depths of about 1.5m from the seafloor of the Gulf of Taranto (South of Italy). The research investigates the effects of a treatment with cement and lime enhanced by the addition of green additives, such as active carbon and biochar, for chemical remediation. The last one is a promising and cheap adsorbent material, that is the by-product of - mainly - agricultural waste pyrolysis. The first results suggest that appropriate mix designs and curing times could allow the reuse of sediments by both improving their geotechnical characteristics and making them environmentally acceptable in accordance to end-of-waste criteria.
2019
7th International Symposium on Deformation Characteristics of Geomaterials, IS-Glasgow 2019
Stabilization and recycling of contaminated marine sediments / Todaro, Francesco; Vitone, Claudia; Notarnicola, Michele. - In: E3S WEB OF CONFERENCES. - ISSN 2267-1242. - ELETTRONICO. - 92:(2019). (Intervento presentato al convegno 7th International Symposium on Deformation Characteristics of Geomaterials, IS-Glasgow 2019 tenutosi a Glasgow, Scotland nel June 26-28, 2019) [10.1051/e3sconf/20199211004].
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