Wind tunnel simulation of environmental controls on fugitive dust emissions from mine tailings

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 520-529

  McKenna Neuman, Cheryl ^a   Boulton, J Wayne ^b   Sanderson, Steven ^a  

^a TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ROWAN WILLIAMS DAVIES AND IRWIN INC   (Canada)

Author keywords

Emission rates; Fugitive dust; Mine tailings; Wind tunnel

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLED EXPERIMENTS; DRILL CORES; DUST DISPERSIONS; EMISSION RATES; ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROLS; FUGITIVE DUST; FUGITIVE DUST EMISSIONS; HIGHLY PORTABLES; IN FIELDS; MINE TAILINGS; MONITORING STATIONS; PARTICLE SETTLING; PHYSICAL CONTROLS; TEMPORAL VARIATIONS; TEST PROTOCOLS; WIND TUNNEL SIMULATIONS;

AERODYNAMICS; BUILDING MATERIALS; CORE DRILLING; DUST; DUST CONTROL; MINES; MINING; PERMANENT MAGNETS; TUNNELS; WIND TUNNELS;

MINE DUST;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DUST; EMISSION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MINE WASTE; TAILINGS; WIND TUNNEL;

EID: 58049168924     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2008.10.011     Document Type: Article

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