ESTIMATING IRON AND ALUMINUM CONTENT OF ACID MINE DISCHARGE FROM A NORTH-CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA COAL FIELD BY USE OF ACIDITY TITRATION CURVES By Arthur N. Ott U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Water-Resources 1986
Get priceThe Marchand passive treatment system was constructed in 2006 for a 6,000L/min discharge from an abandoned underground bituminous coal mine located in western Pennsylvania, USA. a …
Get price14 and 7.0 is termed "neutral pH." An important consideration with high sulfur content coal is the reaction of sulfur, oxygen and water and in the presence of bacteria forms sulfuric acid and lowers the pH. A pH of below 6.5 may be corrosive to plumbing
Get priceField tests of this system as an aeration process involved near-neutral mine water with high ferrous iron (Fe/sup 2 +/) concentrations which were causing discharge pollution problems.
Get priceMicrobial ecology of iron-rich sediments at an abandoned circumneutral coal mine drainage site in the South Wales Coalfield. The Ynysarwed mine adit (51 42′05.9''N, 3 43′33.1''W) (Fig. 1) is situated in the Lower Neath Valley and during operation mainly worked the notoriously pyritic Rhondda No. 2 coal seam of the Upper Coal Measures.
Get price· The Cumbria mine will see five million tonnes of coal removed per year from beneath the Irish Sea for steelmaking – an industry where decarbonisation is particularly difficult. Steel is an alloy that consists mostly of iron.
Get pricePittsburgh coal basin (Pennsylvania, USA). The Montour mine is a 5650-hectare below-drainage coal mine of maximum 260 metres depth. Montour was closed in 1980 and flooded to within 38 metres of land surface within 4.8 years. Pumping averaging 210 L/s
Get priceOne of these passive technologies involves a SO 4 -reducing bioreactor and is similar to a successive alkalinity producing system (SAPS), which has been widely used in remediation of coal-mine drainage in Appalachia (Kepler and McCleary, 1994;Watzlaf, 1997).
Get priceDuring the first year of operation, the Marchand treatment reduced iron concentrations in Sewickley Creek from an average of 74 milligrams per liter to less than 1 milligram per liter, which means the stream now meets the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection''s water quality standards.
Get priceIron mining in the United States produced 48 million metric tons of iron ore in 2019. Iron ore was the third-highest-value metal mined in the United States, after gold and copper. Iron ore was mined from nine active mines and three reclamation operations in Michigan, Minnesota, and Utah..
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Get pricemanganese is stable under reducing conditions (typical mine drainage conditions) up to pH 10 or so, consistent with conventional wisdom. Raising the pH under reducing conditions produces large the hydroxide. Another aspect of an Eh‐pH diagram is the lowered
Get priceAcid mine drainage (AMD) pollution is considered to be the most serious water pollution problem in mining areas. AMD containing iron sulfates and other components can affect the receiving water bodies. Pyrite oxidation and AMD generation can be considered as important processes that may take place in the wastes produced by coal mining and coal washing operations in the Golestan province ...
Get priceEstimating iron and aluminum content of acid mine discharge from a north-central Pennsylvania coal field by use of acidity titration curves Series title Water-Resources Investigations Report Series number 84-4335 DOI 10.3133/wri844335 Year Published 1986 ...
Get priceAcid mine drainage (AMD), which can have pH values as low as –3.6 (Nordstrom et al., 2000), can contain high concentrations of many solutes, including iron and arsenic (see Chapter 11.5). The highest reported arsenic concentration, 850 000 μg l −1, was found in an acid seep in Richmond mine, California ( Nordstrom and Alpers, 1999 ).
Get price· The Coal Authority has records of the discharge, which is coloured by iron reaching the surface and oxidising, dating back to at least 1986. The issue is widespread across the ...
Get priceLime neutralization. By far, the most commonly used commercial process for treating acid mine drainage is lime ( CaO) precipitation in a high-density sludge (HDS) process. In this application, a slurry of lime is dispersed into a tank containing acid mine drainage and recycled sludge to increase water pH to about 9.
Get pricePerformance and microbial community dynamics of a sulfate-reducing bioreactor treating coal generated acid mine drainage. Burns AS(1), Pugh CW, Segid YT, Behum PT, Lefticariu L, Bender KS. Author information: (1)Department of Microbiology, Southern Illinois University, 1125 Lincoln Drive, Mail Code 6508, Carbondale, IL 62901, USA.
Get priceSludge Recirculation (39) Bituminous Coal Research briefly attempted sludge recirculation with two natural mine waters and found that recirculated sludge aided reducing the iron content in the raw water to a satisfactory level.
Get priceCoal and coal mine drainage James F. Boyer, Bituminous Coal Research, Inc., Pittsburgh, Pa. ia E. Gleason, Bituminous Coal ... the possibility of reducing the iron content of the discharge from a deep mine shaft by aerating and treating the water in the ...
Get priceEnergy content, composition, and associated water chemistry of wastes in the coal-preparation plant of the Green Valley-Wabash Mine, Vigo County, Ind. The leaching and reclamation of low-grade mineralized stockpiles.
Get priceEffects of Abandoned Coal-Mine Drainage on Streamflow and Water Quality in the Mahanoy Creek Basin, Schuylkill, Columbia, and Northumberland Counties, Pennsylvania, 2001 by Charles A. Cravotta III U.S. Department of the Interior U.S. Geological Survey In
Get price· According to Shively, the Truetown Discharge now sends more than 1,000 tons of granular iron oxide into Sunday Creek each year. Commercial ventures have harvested iron oxide from acid mine ...
Get priceOpinion | Precluding coal redux in iron ore mining As things stand, much of the states'' actual auction gains will depend on how the Indian Bureau of Mines prices iron ore and how these prices ...
Get priceiron in the mine. The basic materials studied included lime, lime slurry, and 50 percent sodium hydroxide solution. Re sults of analyses of the mine discharge indicate that less than 50 percent of the iron was removed. A combination biological-limestone treat
Get priceObjective: Determine the effectiveness of remining operations in reducing contaminant load (acidity, iron, and sulfate) of discharges emanating from abandoned surface and underground coal mines. Background: Until the implementation of remining initiatives, most States had regulations that held the operator remining an abandoned site responsible for preexisting acid mine drainage (AMD) discharges.
Get price· This study reports changes in coal-mine drainage constituent concentrations through an anaerobic SO 4 -reducing bioreactor monitored over a 3-a period. The purpose of the study was to identify and monitor over time the biogeochemical mechanisms that control the attenuation of toxic compounds in the mine drainage.
Get priceFor example, different coal mine subsidiaries in India release 0.07–0.41 Mm 3 of MW every day and the total amount of water released per day is 1.24 Mm 3 (Debnath 2013). The mine water is characterized by dissolved solids, hardness, alkalinity, calcium, magnesium, iron and manganese ( Table 1 ), at concentrations which are comparatively higher than the standard drinking water limits ( BIS ...
Get priceThe discharge and treatment system are located on a 8 ha (20 acre) flat site that formerly contained railroad tracks, coke ovens, coal refuse, a steam plant, and mine buildings. The site location is 40 001500.50N, 99 45052.00W. The property was purchased by
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