about 700000 m3 of waste water is produced from zirab coal washery plant every year. this black water not only carries about 4000 tons fine coals, it also contains waste water pollution. in this investigation by flocculation studies under optimized conditions (like concentration of flocculant, 0.0015 g/t, ph=8, concentration of silicate 0.01 g/t as depressant, and r.p.m. of 150) has been shown ...

BACKGROUND Large amounts of expired and unused medications accumulate in households. This potentially exposes the public to hazards due to uncontrolled use of medications. Most of the expired or unused medications that accumulate in households (household medical waste) is thrown to the garbage or flushed down to the sewage, potentially contaminating waste-water, water resources and even drinkin...

Having a proper waste water treatment system is crucial for making a good use of water resources. Current regulations enforce some restrictions to the industries producing waste, according to the capacities of waste water treatment plants. However, these are usually not sufficient to ensure that these capacities are not exceeded. In this paper we present a coordination system that provides a mo...

Size-reduced samples of southern yellow pine dimensional lumber, each treated with one of five different waterborne chemical preservatives, were leached using 18-h batch leaching tests. The wood preservatives included chromated copper arsenate (CCA), alkaline copper quaternary, copper boron azole, copper citrate, and copper dimethyldithiocarbamate. An unpreserved wood sample was tested as well....

Aluminum enters municipal solid waste MSW landfills from untreated raw curbside trash MSW , industrial waste, and aluminum production wastes variously called dross, baghouse fines, salt cake, and other designations. Aluminum related reactions can arise and become problematic for landfill operations by generating undesirable heat, liquid leachate, and gases, such as hydrogen, hydrogen sulfide, c...

In this study, waste water drains and produced phosphate fertilizers of conventional wet-process (hemihydrate) phosphoric acid and phosphate fertilizer plants were investigated to determine the average uranium contents in the active manufacturing period. The method chosen for the determination of uranium was an extension of an existing spectroanalytical method and was adopted for waste water an...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the environmental quality of Guiyu, Guangdong impacted by the electronic waste recycling industry. METHODS The surface water, ground water and sediment samples taken separately from two sites that recycle E-wastes and other rubbish relevant to the E-waste recycling, and an agricultural area, were analyzed, and the data were used to evaluate the impact of E-waste recyclin...

Problem: The Dutch aquaculture industry is based on fish production in recirculating aquaculture systems. Enforced by legislation the fish farmers have to reduce the waste discharge and are not allowed to discharge farm effluents on the surface waters. The government expresses waste discharge in inhabitant equivalents (I.E = average daily waste production of 1 person during 1 year, expressed in...

Many commonly used shallow seismic sources are unacceptable for hazardous waste site investigations because they risk exhumation of contaminants in the soil, they add contaminants (e.g. lead) which are not allowed by regulations, or they add new migration paths for contaminants. Furthermore, recently developed high frequency vibrators for shallow investigations could be more effective at some s...