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Fall 2018
Maintenance management in wind energy industry has great impact on overall wind power cost. Optimizing maintenance strategies can substantially reduces the cost and makes wind energy more competitive among the energy resources. Due to the extreme conditions of remote or offshore sites where the...
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2003
Pyritic tailings from the Quirke mine waste management area in Elliot Lake, Ontario were subjected to long-term column leaching experiments in two PVC columns measuring 122 cm in height and 15.2 cm in diameter. At the end of the leaching experiments, the columns were taken apart and sampled at 5...
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2003
Salmon, S. U., Malmström, M. E.
Quantification of site-specific sulfide oxidation rates is crucial to accuracy of prediction of, for example, the environmental impact of a mine site. Sulfide oxidation reactions are reportedly increased by bacterial mediation; determination of abiotic and biotic weathering rates thus requires...
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2003-01-01
The issue of estimating evaporation in soils is central to the design of engineered soil caps for mine waste and landfill applications. In general, because evaporation from the soil is difficult to measure in the field, laboratory experiments and empirical methods have been used. Much of the...
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2003
Germain, D., Tassé, N., Cyr, J.
At the East Sullivan site, wood wastes covering the abandoned mine tailings impoundment prevent sulfide oxidation by creating an anoxic environment. The addition of coarse ligneous wastes and their high permeability favour infiltration, resulting in a water table rise that maintains most tailings...
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2003-01-01
The derelict Lake George Mine is located at Captains Flat in NSW, a community of approximately 450, which lies some 43 km southeast of Queanbeyan. It straddles the Molonglo River, which flows to Queanbeyan and thence the nation’s capital, Canberra. Catastrophic tailings dam failures in 1939 and...
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2003
Smith, C. D., Martens, M. A., McElnea, A. E.
An 18-month project was undertaken to test the effectiveness of controlled daily tidal exchange augmented with hydrated lime treatment of surface waters as an approach for remediating a severe acid sulfate soil disturbance at East Trinity, Cairns, north Queensland. Actual acid sulfate soils were...
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2003-01-01
The Wisemans Creek derelict mine site is located in native forest approximately 150 km west of Sydney. Mean annual rainfall at Bathurst, 20 km to the north, is 634 mm and reasonably distributed throughout the year, with slightly more rain falling in the summer months. Evaporation is 1350 mm per...
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2003
Smyth, D. J. A., Blowes, D. W., Ptacek, C. J., Bain, J. G.
The passive interception and in situ treatment of groundwater using permeable reactive barriers (PRBs) has, within the past decade, become an accepted remedial approach to the control of plumes containing dissolved organic and inorganic contaminants. Since the first applications of the technology...