TY - JOUR N2 - Although the utilization of pesticides accounted for the group of persistent organic pollutants was banned years ago, a count of pesticides are still directly or indirectly a source of contamination in Europe. One of them, simazine is still allowed for use in the United States. Aim of this experiment was development of soil remediation method which could be utilized for degradation triazine class pesticides – simazine was an example used. A method for soil remediation based on ozonation processes in fluidized bed was successfully utilized for removal of simazine from contaminated soil. For the study soil highly contaminated with simazine up to the concentration of 0.05% w/w was used. Determination of the pesticide levels in soil was performed using extraction and gas chromatography. The method allowed 80% reduction of pesticide concentration level. The degradation of pesticide was accompanied with changes of physicochemical parameters of soil, i.e., decrease of pH and a increase of nitrates concentration. Despite changes in physicochemical properties of the soil, the developed method proved to be highly effective and can be successfully applied on an industrial scale. L1 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/102403/PDF/aep-2016-0024.pdf L2 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/102403 PY - 2016 IS - No 3 DO - 10.1515/aep-2016-0024 KW - simazine KW - remediation KW - soil KW - ozone A1 - Balawejder, Maciej A1 - Józefczyk, Radosław A1 - Antos, Piotr A1 - Pieniążek, Marcin PB - Polish Academy of Sciences VL - vol. 42 DA - 2016.09.18 T1 - A method for remediation of soil contaminated with simazine UR - http://journals.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/102403 T2 - Archives of Environmental Protection ER -