Leachability of environmentally hazardous elements from ashes produced after lignite combustion in agios dimitrios power plant, Northern Greece

5th International Scientific Conference of Modern Management of Mine Producing, Geology and Environmental Protection, SGEM 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 299-306

  Papastergios, Georgios ^a   Georgakopoulos, Andreas ^a   Fernández Turiel, José Luis ^b   Gimeno, Domingo ^c   Kapetanios, Christos ^d  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES JAUME ALMERA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d Crude Oil Pipeline Transportation   (Greece)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

FLY ASH LEACHATE; HAZARDOUS ELEMENTS; HIGH CALCIUMS; LEACHING PROCEDURES; NORTHERN GREECE; POTENTIAL HAZARDS; RELATIVE MASS; SYNTHETIC GROUNDWATER LEACHING PROCEDURES;

ASH HANDLING; ASHES; BERYLLIUM; CALCIUM; DYSPROSIUM; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; ERBIUM; EUROPIUM; FLY ASH; GADOLINIUM; GEOLOGY; GERMANIUM; GROUNDWATER; LEACHING; LEAD; LIGNITE; LUTETIUM; MAGNESIUM; NEODYMIUM; POWER PLANTS; PRASEODYMIUM; SAMARIUM; STRONTIUM; TITANIUM; URANIUM; YTTERBIUM; ZIRCONIUM;

THULIUM;

EID: 78650400150     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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