The efficacy of composting to treat soils contaminated withkerosene was studied with bench-scale compost reactor systems. Thefate of kerosene during composting was also studied usingradio-labeled ~14C-hexadecane. The temperature profiles of thecompost reactors containing 1/100 and 5/100 kerosene contaminatedsoils did not differ much from that of control reactors. However, thereactors with 20/100 kerosene contaminated soil showed much lowerthermophilic temperatures. The GC spectra of kerosene homologues. Themost of ~14C-hexadecane was volatilized, and relatively smallerpercentage was mineralized to CO_2 after 64 days of composting.
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