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Carbon disulphide sources, risks and treatment: an emerging contaminant of environmental concern?

ROBERT M. KALIN, PHILIP MYLES & KAREN McGEOUGH

Environmental Engineering Research Centre, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast BT9 5AG, UK

r.kalin@qub.ac.uk

Abstract Carbon disulphide (CS2) is a contaminant of concern at a significant number of US EPA Superfund sites, and is found at an increasing number of contaminated land and groundwater sites. The risk assessment and remediation of CS2 therefore requires a wider appreciation for the potential occurrences and what remediation options are available when identified as a contaminant of concern. This paper reviews the sources, risks and remediation options that are currently known for CS2 contaminated soil and groundwater.

Key words carbon disulphide; contaminated land; groundwater remediation; permeable reactive barrier; zero valent iron