ABSTRACT
Up to 1996 only a few in situ bioventing projects were carried out in the Netherlands and of these, the first one was initiated in 1988 by Delft geotechnics. To complete the proposal to use (bio)venting as a technique for the in situ removal of petroleum hydrocarbons from soil, it was necessary to demonstrate that soil venting offers a two-pronged attack for the in situ removal of hydrocarbons from soil under field conditions: removal of the volatiles by venting and the removal of the semi- and non-volatiles by bioventing. As the average molecular weight of diesel oil corresponds to cetane or hexadecane, because it makes up a relatively large part of the chromatogram.
