The use of soil-flushing to remediate metal contamination in a smelting slag dumping area: Column and pilot-scale experiments

Engineering Geology

Volumn 115, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 16-27

  Navarro, Andrés ^a   Martínez, Francisco ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b DSM Deretil   (Spain)

Author keywords

Flushing; Groundwater; Metal; Slag; Soil

Indexed keywords

COLUMN EXPERIMENTS; CONTAMINATED AREAS; CONTROL WELLS; FERRIHYDRITES; FLUSHING; IN-SITU; JAROSITES; KINETIC PROCESS; MELANTERITE; METAL CONTAMINATION; METAL-CONTAMINATED SOILS; MINING AREAS; PILOT SCALE; PILOT SCALE TEST; PILOT-SCALE EXPERIMENTS; PILOT-SCALE STUDY; PORE VOLUME; POROUS MEDIA;

CADMIUM; CONTAMINATION; EXPERIMENTS; GROUNDWATER; LEAD; MANGANESE; MANGANESE COMPOUNDS; MANGANESE REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT); METALS; POROUS MATERIALS; REMEDIATION; SLAGS; SODIUM; SOIL POLLUTION; SOILS; WELLS; ZINC;

SMELTING;

CONTAMINATED LAND; GROUNDWATER; HEAVY METAL; METALLURGY; MINING; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; POROUS MEDIUM; REMEDIATION; SLAG; SMELTING; SOIL POLLUTION;

EID: 77955769847     PISSN: 00137952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enggeo.2010.07.001     Document Type: Article

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