Comparison of Biological and Thermal Remediation Methods in Decontamination of Oil Polluted Soils

Petroleum products can be released into the soil environment via spill, leakage, transport, or other incidents which adversely affect agricultural, residential or recreational land use [1]. Since oil pollution is a great environmental threat as it can pollute neighboring soil, surface and ground water, it may damage ecosystems and negatively affect health of plants, animals and human being [2,3]. Therefore, it’s a very important issue to control oil pollution in various environments and to remediate oil polluted sites as well.