Jet Fuel as a Source of Soil Pollution: A Review
Koroleva T.V. Semenkov I.N. Lednev S.A. Soldatova O.S.
September 2024
Eurasian Soil Science
2024#57Issue 91519 - 1524 pp.
Abstract: Kerosene is widely used in various types of anthropogenic activities. Its environmental safety is mainly discussed in the context of aerospace activities. At all stages of its life cycle, aerospace activity impacts the environment. In aviation, the pollution of atmospheric air and terrestrial ecosystems is caused, first of all, by jet fuel and the products of its incomplete combustion and is technologically specified for a number of models in the case of fuel leak during an emergency landing. In the rocket and space activities, jet fuel enters terrestrial ecosystems as a result of fuel spills from engines and fuel tanks at the crash sites of the first stages of launch vehicles. The jet fuel from the second and third stages of launch vehicles does not enter terrestrial ecosystems. The fuel components have been studied in sufficient detail. However, the papers with representative data sets and their statistical processing not only for the kerosene content, but also for the total petroleum hydrocarbons in the soils affected by aerospace activity are almost absent. Nevertheless, the available data and results of mathematical modeling allow us to assert that an acceptable level of hydrocarbons, not exceeding the assimilation potential, enters terrestrial ecosystems during a regular aerospace activity. Thus, the incoming amount of jet fuel disappears rapidly enough without causing any irreversible damage.
airports , Albic Retisols , brown arid soils , Calcisols , ecological indicators , rocket and space activity , soddy-podzolic soils , soil health , total petroleum hydrocarbons , volatile organic compounds
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Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, 119991, Russian Federation
Yuzhnyi Center for Operation of Space Ground Based Infrastructure, Baikonur, 468320, Kazakhstan
Lomonosov Moscow State University
Yuzhnyi Center for Operation of Space Ground Based Infrastructure
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