Remediation scenario of the abandoned Kettara mine site (Morocco): acid mine drainage (AMD) transport modeling
نویسندگان
چکیده
Abstract In this study, we present the efficiency of remediation scenario to attenuate impact acid mine drainage (AMD) contamination in Kettara abandoned site. The study focuses on AMD groundwater Sarhlef shists aquifer. To predict evolution site under scenario, a model flow and transport was performed. Piezometric heads were measured at dry wet periods from eleven wells located downstream wastes. elaborate conceptual model, faced with heterogeneity anisotropy fractured Consequently, focused use various approaches: 1. inverse modeling by CMA-ES algorithm is adopted as an alternative approach determine hydraulic parameters indirectly, 2. treated equivalent porous media (EPM). carried out steady-state transient conditions using PMWIN interface. obtained results are satisfactory show excellent correlation between computed heads. Contaminant used solve advection–dispersion equation generate concentration MT3D via A sensitivity analysis dispersivity coefficient out. simulation during 1, 5 10 years, performed indicates that simulated concentrations reduced 1000 times comparing current concentrations. revealed necessary addressing environmental issue for contamination. will be start-up further research work area implementing it prevention propagation plume.
منابع مشابه
Acid Mine drAinAge (AMd) MAnAgeMent
AMd is recognized as one of the most serious environmental problem in the mining industry. the problem of acid mine drainage (AMd) has been present since mining activity began thousands of years ago. Mining activity has disrupted the hydrology of mining areas so badly that it is extremely difficult to predict where water would eventually re-emerge. its causes, treatment have become the focus of...
متن کاملBio-Remediation of Acid Mine Drainage in the Sarcheshmeh Porphyry Copper Mine by Fungi: Batch and Fixed Bed Process
Acid mine drainage (AMD) containing high concentrations of iron and sulphate, low pH and variableconcentrations of heavy metals leads to many environmental problems. The concentrations of Cu and Mnare high in the AMD of the Sarcheshmeh porphyry copper mine, Kerman province, south of Iran. In thisstudy, the bio-remediation of Cu and Mn ions from acid mine drainage was investigated using two nati...
متن کاملPreventing acid mine drainage from mine tailings
Mining activity always has high impact on its surroundings, being waste deposition the cause of multiple and complex problems to the environment. One of them is Acid Mine Drainage (AMD), causing acid water percolation through large areas in the mine site. Portugal was a prosper tungsten producer from the beginning of the XX century, having its apogee during World War II. Nowadays there are mill...
متن کاملTHE CENTER FOR A Legislative Agency of the Pennsylvania General Assembly Acid Mine Drainage: Studies in Remediation Acid Mine Drainage: Studies in Remediation Watershed Scale Assessment of an Acid-Mine Drainage Abatement Project in Clarion County
متن کامل
Characterization of an Acid Mine Drainage Site in Southern Illinois
Two seams at the Tab-Simco abandoned underground coal mine site in southern Illinois were mined intermittently from the 1890’s until 1955, and later surface mined. The stripping operations resulted in several break-ins into the old underground works which were later buried by mine spoil. The resulting mine pool in the lower of the two seams has been producing an average of ~150 m per day of aci...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: SN applied sciences
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['2523-3971', '2523-3963']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s42452-021-04690-6