Research Catalog

Title

Minewater treatment : technology, application and policy / Melanie Brown, Bob Barley and Harvey Wood.

Author

Brown, Melanie

Publication

London : IWA Pub., c2002.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Barley, Bob.
• Wood, Harvey

Description

xiv, 453 p. : ill. (some col.); 24 cm.

Summary

"Much work has been carried out in recent decades concerning minewater treatment, both in the UK and worldwide. Many different bodies and organizations are involved in developing minewater treatment processes and schemes. Minewater Treatment addresses the "

Subject

• Sewage > Purification
• Mine water

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [423]-448) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

THE MINEWATER PROBLEM: Chemistry of formation -- Occurrence and scale of the problem -- Legal aspects of minewater pollution in the UK -- Legal aspects within a European context -- International mining law outside the EU states -- Current regulatory controls in the UK -- The Environment Agency and the Scottish Environment Protection Agency -- Environmental consequences of minewater -- TREATMENT OPTIONS: At source control -- Migration control -- Collection and treatment -- ACTIVE TREATMENT: pH modification -- Ion exchange -- Biology based treatment -- Other adsorption treatments -- Electrotechnical treatment technologies -- Physical process technonogy -- Active treatment summary -- PASSIVE TREATMENT: Chemical passive treatment -- Biological passive treatment -- Passive treatment summary -- EXISTING SITES IN THE UK CASE STUDIES: Acomb, Northumberland -- Allanton, Scotland -- Aspatria, Cumbria -- Benhar Bing, Lanarkshire -- Blaenavon, Gwent -- Bowden Close, County Durham -- Bulhouse, Yorkshire -- Caphouse, West Yorkshire -- Craigenbay Quarry, Galloway, Scotland -- Dalquharran, Ayrshire -- Dodworth, South Yorkshire -- Edmondsley, Durham -- Fender, Derbyshire -- Foss Mine, Aberfeldy -- Gilmerton Bing, Mid Lothian -- Gwynfi -- Kames, Muirkirk -- Kimblesworth, County Durham -- Mains ofBlairingone, Clackmannan, Fife -- Minto, Fife -- Monktonhall, Mid Lothian -- Nailstone Colliery, Leicestershire -- Nenthead, Cumbria -- Oatlands, Pica, Cumbria -- Old Meadows, Bacup, Lamcashire -- Pelenna, South Wales -- Polkemmet, West Lothian -- Quaking Houses, County Durham -- Renishaw Park, South Yorkshire -- Shilbottle, Northumberland -- Skinningrove, Cleveland, North Yorkshire -- St Helen Auckland, County Durham -- TaffMerthyr, South Wales -- Tailrace Level, Durham Frazer's Grove -- Wheal Jane, Cornwall -- Woolley Colliery, West Yorkshire -- Wren's Nest, Dudley -- Ynysarwed, South Wales -- EXISTING SITES IN THE UK SITE SUMMARIES.

ISBN

1843390043

OCLC

• 68418373
• SCSB-10141447

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library