Treatment of acidic coal mine drainage: Design and operational challenges of successive alkalinity producing systems

Mine Water and the Environment

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 12-19

  Bhattacharya, Jayanta ^a   Ji, Sang Woo ^b   Lee, Hyeon Seok ^b   Cheong, Young Wook ^b   Yim, Gil Jae ^b   Min, Jeong Sik ^b   Choi, Yong Suk ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b Korea Institute of Geosceince and Mineral Resources   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Design; Iron removal; Performance; South Korea; Successive alkalinity producing systems (SAPS); Sulfate removal

Indexed keywords

EID: 41049112111     PISSN: 10259112     EISSN: 16161068     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10230-007-0022-4     Document Type: Article

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