title: An evaluation of residues at an oil refinery site following fires.
abstract: Soil pollution at the oil refinery at Novi Sad following destruction of crude oil and its products in storage tanks during the Kosovo conflict was investigated. More than 100,000 t of crude oil and its products were destroyed, and about 90% of these were burnt off, 10% leached and 130 t recovered. The acute injection of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) to the air of the town was widespread depending on the weather conditions and ranged from 1-431,000 ng/m3. The presence of PAHs, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), and elements in the surface zone and soil core samples taken from various sites were determined up to a depth of 100 cm. Concentrations of PAHs were in the range between 0.75 and 86.19 microg/g dry soil. The contaminated soil can be expected to act as a permanent pollution source, while the mobile constituents are likely to cause groundwater pollution.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Technology, Novi Sad, Yugoslavia. biljana@tehnol.ns.ac.yu
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Skrbić
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Miljević
mesh_terms: D004784:Environmental Monitoring; D004785:Environmental Pollutants / Q000032:analysis; D005390:Fires; D007220:Industrial Waste; D010578:Petroleum; D011078:Polychlorinated Biphenyls / Q000032:analysis; D011084:Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons / Q000032:analysis; D012989:Soil Pollutants / Q000032:analysis*
chemical_list: D004785:Environmental Pollutants; D007220:Industrial Waste; D010578:Petroleum; D011084:Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons; D012989:Soil Pollutants; D011078:Polychlorinated Biphenyls