Assessment for treatment options at the Young Dong Coal Mine site, South Korea

Ranville, J.F. and Sibrell, P.L. and Wildeman, T.R. and Lee, B.T. and Jang, M. and Shim, Y.S. and Ji, W.H. and Park, H.S. and Lee, H.J. (2009) Assessment for treatment options at the Young Dong Coal Mine site, South Korea. In: Joint Conference of 26th Annual Meetings of the American Society of Mining and Reclamation and 11th Billings Land Reclamation Symposium 2009, 2009, Billings, MT.

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Abstract

The Young Dong Coal Mine site in northeastern South Korea was closed in the early 1990s and initial reclamation was finished in 1995. Even though the adit was filled with limestone, there is still significant acid rock drainage (ARD) flowing from the site. An assessment that was started in March 2008 revealed that there were three types of water flowing from various sources on the site. ARD still flowed from the adit; which carried an average of 500 mg CaCO 3 / L of mineral acidity primarily in the form of Fe(II) with a flow that reached 2.8 m3 / min in spring runoff. This water is the focus of this paper. The hydrology is complex because there are at least two periods of high surface flow during the year, one in the spring and one during monsoon season. The water issuing from the adit is from a diffuse aquifer where concentrations increase when flow increases. In addition, the terrain is quite steep with few level spots. One other factor in the assessment of treatment is that a limestone quarry is only a few kilometers from the site. All of these factors have led to the conclusion that none of the traditional methods of passive treatment can be applied to this site. Instead, it is proposed to use an upgrade of a diversion well that is called a pulsed passive limestone reactor (PPLR). With maximizing all of the parameters that can be changed on a PPLR, it is anticipated that a one stage PPLR system could generate up to 250 mg CaCO 3 / L and so there would be a set of reactors needed to treat the complete flow.

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Additional Information:	Conference code: 92120 Export Date: 16 December 2013 Source: Scopus Language of Original Document: English Correspondence Address: Ranville, J.F.; Department of Chemistry and Geochemistry, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, 80401, United States References: Arnold, D.E., Diversion wells - A low-cost approach to treatment of acid mine drainage (1991) Proceedings, Twelfth West Virginia Surface Mine Drainage Task Force Symposium, , April 3-4, 1991, Morgantown, WV; Gusek, J.J., Rutkowski, T., Blumenstein, E., Shipley, B., Two-year sulfate reducing bioreactor pilot test results at the golinsky mine, California (2008) Proceedings, 2008 National Meeting, American Society of Mining Reclamation, pp. 424-441; Hammarstrom, J.M., Sibrell, P.L., Belkin, H.E., Characterization of limestone reacted with acid-mine drainage in a pulsed limestone bed treatment system at the friendship hill national historic site, pennsylvania, USA (2003) Appl. Geochem., 18, pp. 1705-1721; Hedin, R.J., Watzlaf, G.R., Nairn, G.R., Passive treatment of coal mine drainage with limestone (1994) J. Environ. Qual., 23, pp. 1338-1345; Mitchell, K.G., Wildeman, T.R., Solubility of fe(III) and al in AMD by modeling and experiment (1996) Proceedings, 1994 National Meeting, American Society of Surface Mining and Reclamation, pp. 681-689; Plummer, L.N., Wigley, T.M.L., Parkhurst, D.L., The kinetics of calcite dissolution in CO2-water systems at 5o to 60oC and 0.0 to 1.0 atm CO2 (1978) Am. Jour. Sci., 278, pp. 179-216; Rose, A.W., Bisko, D., Daniel, A., Bower, M.A., Hickman, S., An "autopsy" of the failed tangaskootack #1 vertical flow pond, clinton co. Pennsylvania (2004) Proceedings, 2004 National Meeting, American Society of Mining Reclamation, pp. 1580-1594; Scott, M., (2005) Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, , personal communication; Sibrell, P.L., Chambers, M.A., Deaguero, A.L., Wildeman, T.R., Reisman, D.J., An innovative carbonate co-precipitation process for the removal of zinc and manganese from mining impacted waters (2007) Env. Sci. and Eng., 24, pp. 885-899; Skousen, J.G., Ziemkiewicz, P.F., (1995) Acid Mine Drainage Control and Treatment, 253p. , West Virginia Univ; Skousen, J.G., Rose, A., Geidel, G., Foreman, J., Evans, R., Hellier, W., (1998) A Handbook of Technologies for Avoidance and Remediation of Acid Mine Drainage, 131p. , http://www.techtransfer.osmre.gov/NTTMainSite/osmlibrary.htm), National Mine Land Reclamation Center, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV; Sverdrup, H.U., (1985) Calcite Dissolution Kinetics and Lake Neutralization, , Ph.D. thesis, Lund Institute of Technology, Lund, Sweden; Thomas, R.C., (2002) Passive Treatment of Low-pH, Ferric Iron-dominated Acid Rock Drainage, 365p. , Ph.D. dissertation, University of Georgia; Thomas, R.C., Romanek, C.S., Paddock, L.S., Trace metal retention in LBOS-amended, vertical-flow constructed wetlands treating low pH, ferric iron-dominated acid rock drainage (2004) Proceedings, 2004 National Meeting, American Society of Mining Reclamation, pp. 1862-1893; (2002) Test Methods for Evaluating Solid Wastes, Physical and Chemical Methods, , http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/hazwaste/test/sw846.htm; (2004) National Recommended Water Quality Criteria, , http://www.epa.gov/waterscience/criteria/wqcriteria.html, United States Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Water. (4304T); Watten, B.J., Sibrell, P.L., Schwartz, M.F., Effect of acidity and elevated P CO2 on acid neutralization within pulsed limestone bed reactors receiving coal mine drainage (2004) Environ. Eng. Sci., 21, pp. 786-802; Wildeman, T.R., Ranville, J., Jang, M., (2008) Report on the 2008 Sampling and Analysis Activities at the Young Dong Site, , Korea; Wildeman, T., Updegraff, D., Passive bioremediation of metals and inorganic contaminants (1998) Perspectives in Environmental Chemistry, pp. 473-495. , D.L. Macalady, Ed. Oxford University Press, New York Sponsors: Buchanan Consultants; Peabody Energy; Inter-Mountain Labs.; BHP Billiton; BKS Environmental
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Coal mine ARD, Limestone reactors, Metals contamination, Acid rock drainage, Lime-stone quarry, Monsoon season, Passive treatment, South Korea, Surface flow, Aquifers, Calcium carbonate, Coal mines, Land reclamation, Limestone, Reclamation
Subjects:	T Technology > TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
Divisions:	Faculty of Engineering
Depositing User:	Mr Jenal S
Date Deposited:	30 Jan 2014 03:43
Last Modified:	30 Jan 2014 03:43
URI:	http://eprints.um.edu.my/id/eprint/9209

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