November 2020

Pilot bioremediation of contaminated soils by hydrocarbons, from an electricity production and distribution site in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

The bioremediation of polluted soils by hydrocarbons is a set of decontamination techniques which exploit the depolluting activity of living organisms in order to reduce the toxicity, mobility or quantity of a contaminant in the environment. This work has enabled the bioremediation of a soil contaminated with hydrocarbons by exploiting endogenous microorganisms of the environment. The depollution method used was the...

Author(s): Wendlassida Pauline Ouédraogo, Cécile Harmonie Otoidobiga, Cheik Amadou Tidiane Ouattara, Aboubakar Sidiki Ouattara and Alfred S. Traoré