Using sewage sludge as a sealing layer to remediate sulphidic mine tailings: A pilot-scale experiment, northern Sweden

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 70, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 3093-3105

  Nason, Peter ^a   Alakangas, Lena ^a   Öhlander, Björn ^a  

^a LULEÅ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Geochemistry; Remediation; Sealing layer; Sewage sludge

Indexed keywords

ACID ROCK DRAINAGE; ALKALINE ENVIRONMENT; ANAEROBIC DEGRADATION; DISSOLVED CONCENTRATIONS; ORGANIC MATTER DEGRADATIONS; PILOT-SCALE EXPERIMENTS; SEALING LAYERS; SULPHIDE OXIDATION;

EFFLUENTS; EXPERIMENTS; GEOCHEMISTRY; LEAD; OXYGEN; REMEDIATION; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; TAILINGS; ZINC;

SEWAGE SLUDGE;

ACID MINE DRAINAGE; ALKALINITY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DEGRADATION; EFFLUENT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GEOCHEMISTRY; LEACHATE; MINE WASTE; OXIDATION; REMEDIATION; SEALING; SEWAGE TREATMENT; SLUDGE; SULFIDE; TAILINGS; TRACE ELEMENT;

KRISTINEBERG; SWEDEN; VASTERBOTTEN;

EID: 84888039255     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-013-2369-0     Document Type: Article

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