Abstract Eighty-six sinkholes occurred in a karst area of 2 km from 1990 to 2016, resulting cracked houses and abandoned farmland. The affected is adjacent three underground mines with mining depth up 600 m below ground. Sinkhole characteristics, hydrogeochemical isotopic data, groundwater-gas pressure measurements were evaluated understand the dynamic system. An aquiclude layer was identified ...

This research assessed the use of gypsum (CaSO42H2O) as a skeleton builder for sludge dewatering since polymer conditioning of sludge affected only the rate of water release, not the extent of dewatering. The use of gypsum as a physical conditioner, in association with a polymer, could improve sludge filterability. More significantly, gypsum serves as a skeleton builder, forming a permeable an...

In order to enhance mechanical dewatering, conditioning polymers are used to flocculate sewage sludge. These polymers modify floc structure, which has an impact on dewatering efficiency. However, fundamental aspects of those processes are incompletely understood, particularly the way that flocs are structurally organized and how this may relate to their mechanical and dewatering properties. Thu...

This research focuses on the investigation of hydrogeological hazards in open pit coal mines. The study area is Amyntaio sub-basin area, located West Macedonia prefecture, Greece. A major part SE this occupied by mine. In recent decades, basin’s aquifer has been overexploited both dewatering wells mine and irrigation wells, triggering extensive land subsidence an that extends 3 km around Additi...

Reactivation or regrowth of fecal coliform bacteria in biosolids has recently become a concern due to knowledge that Class B materials may fail to meet this criterion after storage or even after land application. In this paper, data show the two types of fecal coliform increases that have been characterized: immediate reappearance of large concentrations directly after dewatering; and the rapid...

The purpose of this paper is an experimental and model assisted investigation of the capabilities of a dewatering system for sewage sludge for decentralised sites. Laboratory and field tests are performed with different initial conditions and the influences of filter medium, initial height, initial total suspended solids, temperature and relative humidity are discussed. The experimental work sh...

Abstract This paper describes a novel technology for dewatering of bio materials, such as algae, for biofuel production and other applications. This hydrodynamic separation (HDS) technology uses customized fluid flow patterns to focus suspended particulates into a well-defined band near a side wall of a curved channel, and where they can be separated off with a suitably designed flow splitter. ...