Electrokinetic remediation is a process in which a direct electric current is applied across a section of contaminated soil to remove metals. To improve the electrokinetic remediation in this study, a conductive membrane was fabricated via in-situ chemical polymerization employing Pyrrole and copper oxide nanoparticles. The fabricated membrane was placed in an electric field as part of the electrode structure. A physical model was constructed and filled with copper contaminated kaolinite in the concentration of 200 mg/kg. To control the pH, 0.1 M citric acid and 0.01 M potassium chloride were used as the electrolyte solutions. The results showed that the minimum surface resistivity of the fabricated membrane under a maximum pressure of 8.2 (kPa) was 2.55 kΩ /m 2 . The experimental results demonstrated that the use of citric acid as an electrolyte was more useful to desorb the copper due to the formation of the copper-citrate complex. Also, the results showed that employing the fabricated membrane (as part of the electrode structure) accelerated the removal of the copper by the use of the enhancing agents. The average percentage decrease of copper (with the use of fabricated membrane relative to the control test) was 51% and 21% in GM-2/CT-2 and GM-1/CT-1, respectively.The highest power consumption was obtained in experiments using citric acid. Due to the higher removal efficiency of copper in GM-2, the energy utilization efficiency () increased and reached 29.9 near  value of GM-1 with the lowest power consumption.

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