TY - GEN
T1 - Electrical geophysical monitoring of organic waste contamination
AU - Ntarlagiannis, D.
AU - Robinson, J.
AU - Kirmizakis, P.
AU - Soupios, P.
AU - Slater, L. D.
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © (2015) by the European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers (EAGE).
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - Olive oil production in the Mediterranean area is a major industry, with significant impact in the economy of producer countries. During the production of extra virgin olive oil, a substantial amount of waste is produced and is improperly disposed. since no regulation for the environmental deposition of olive oil mill waste exists. Thus, there is an urgent need for the development of methods that will allow efficient monitor waste management processes, and enable rapid recognition of environmental degradation incidents. The most common disposal practice involves unrestricted damping of the olive oil mill waste in open evaporation ponds, leading to significant degradation of the environment including groundwater and surface waters. Geophysical methods could be used to monitor olive oil waste management processes, and identify olive oil waste plumes right at their inception times. We applied a series of electrical geophysical measurements at an olive oil mill waste (OOMW) site in western Crete to test their applicability as monitoring AIDS. Our results suggest that electrical methods are very efficient in accurately delineating young OOMW plumes due to their conductive signature.
AB - Olive oil production in the Mediterranean area is a major industry, with significant impact in the economy of producer countries. During the production of extra virgin olive oil, a substantial amount of waste is produced and is improperly disposed. since no regulation for the environmental deposition of olive oil mill waste exists. Thus, there is an urgent need for the development of methods that will allow efficient monitor waste management processes, and enable rapid recognition of environmental degradation incidents. The most common disposal practice involves unrestricted damping of the olive oil mill waste in open evaporation ponds, leading to significant degradation of the environment including groundwater and surface waters. Geophysical methods could be used to monitor olive oil waste management processes, and identify olive oil waste plumes right at their inception times. We applied a series of electrical geophysical measurements at an olive oil mill waste (OOMW) site in western Crete to test their applicability as monitoring AIDS. Our results suggest that electrical methods are very efficient in accurately delineating young OOMW plumes due to their conductive signature.
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U2 - 10.3997/2214-4609.201413701
DO - 10.3997/2214-4609.201413701
M3 - Conference contribution
T3 - Near Surface Geoscience 2015 - 21st European Meeting of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics
SP - 186
EP - 190
BT - Near Surface Geoscience 2015 - 21st European Meeting of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics
PB - European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers, EAGE
T2 - 21st European Meeting of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics, Near Surface Geoscience 2015
Y2 - 6 September 2015 through 10 September 2015
ER -