Methodology for Calculating the Load of Petroleum Products Emissions on the Soils of the Roadside Space Created by the Operation of Highways

Abstract

The development of the road and transport network is an extremely powerful source of various environmental hazards for natural environments and people in particular. The paper considers the problem of determining the load of petroleum products (PP) on the roadside space soil, which is created by the operation of the road. This indicator is necessary for the search and design of highways taking into account environmental consequences, namely, determination of their maximum carrying capacity, monitoring of urban areas, ecological studies of technologically loaded roadside areas and formalization of the results of these studies in mathematical models, etc. The calculation method was developed on the basis of laboratory and field research data. The procedure for determining the real load of PP on the roadside space involves taking two soil samples in the roadside area to determine the current concentration of PP in one sample and establishing the self-cleaning characteristics of this type of soil during the incubation of the second sample in an ecologically clean zone free from the technogenic influence of the highway. The obtained experimental data are used to calculate the real load on the soil of the roadside space of the PP, which is created by the operation of the highway, with the help of which a balance equation was developed.