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Main Title Combination limestone-lime neutralization of ferrous iron acid mine drainage /
Author Wilmoth, Roger C.
CORP Author Industrial Environmental Research Laboratory.
Publisher Industrial Environmental Research Laboratory, Office of Research and Development, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,
Year Published 1978
Report Number EPA-600/2-78-002
Stock Number PB-280 169
OCLC Number 05920068
Subjects Acid mine drainage--West Virginia ; Lime ; Limestone
Additional Subjects Acid mine drainage--West Virginia ; Lime ; Limestone ; Coal mining ; Water pollution control ; Mine waters ; Neutralizing ; Calcium hydroxides ; Iron ; Mine acid drainage
Internet Access
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https://nepis.epa.gov/Exe/ZyPDF.cgi?Dockey=9101KOY3.PDF
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EJBD  EPA 600-2-78-002 c.1 Headquarters Library/Washington,DC 04/14/2014
ELBD ARCHIVE EPA 600-2-78-002 Received from HQ AWBERC Library/Cincinnati,OH 10/04/2023
ELBD RPS EPA 600-2-78-002 repository copy AWBERC Library/Cincinnati,OH 10/17/2014
ESAD  EPA 600-2-78-002 Region 10 Library/Seattle,WA 03/23/2010
NTIS  PB-280 169 Some EPA libraries have a fiche copy filed under the call number shown. 07/26/2022
Collation viii, 52 pages : graphs ; 28 cm.
Abstract
Studies were conducted on ferrous-iron acid mine drainage (AMD) treatment by a two-step neutralization process in which rock-dust limestone was mixed with the influent AMD and then hydrated lime was added in a polishing reactor. This combination treatment process resulted in reagent consumption cost reductions as high as 30 percent as compared to single-stage hydrated lime treatment of the same AMD. Later data indicated that an equal cost reduction (compared to single-stage lime treatment) could be achieved by a two-stage hydrated lime process in which the AMD and recycled sludge were mixed in the first reaction vessel and hydrated lime was added in the second reactor. No cost advantage for the combination process over straight hydrated lime treatment was felt to exist in situations where sludge recycling was not employed.
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (page 50).