An 18 month investigation of the environmental impacts of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) coal ash spill in Kingston, Tennessee combined with leaching experiments on the spilled TVA coal ash have revealed that leachable coal ash contaminants (LCACs), particularly arsenic, selenium, boron, strontium, and barium, have different effects on the quality of impacted environments. While LCACs lev...

Batch tests indicated that arsenic (As) leaching is significantly affected by the calcium concentration in fly ash in the alkaline pH range. Arsenic leaching from low calcium fly ash from eastern bituminous coal increased with increase of pH in the alkaline pH range (pH 7 – 12). Fly ash from eastern bituminous coal with a slightly higher calcium content exhibited an arsenic leaching peak at pH ...

More than two-thirds of the coal combustion by-products (CCBs) produced in the United States are disposed of in dry landfills or in wet ash lagoons. Most of the older ash disposal sites are unlined and many are unmonitored. The US EPA is currently developing national standards for monitoring groundwater at coal combustion byproduct disposal facility (CCBDF) sites in the US. Development of effec...

large reserves of coal in tabas region of iran are characterized by low ash and high caking index, suitable for use in metallurgy as coking coal. however, these coals cannot be gainfully utilized because of their high sulfur content. in this work, studies on desulfurization of tabas coals were carried out in a batch reactor using various reagents. the most effective reagents, fe2(so4)3 , fecl3 ...

zeolite was synthesized from coal tailings and coal fly ash sampled from zarand coal washing plant, iran, using h2o2–promoted hydrothermal treatment. samples consisted mainly of sio2 and al2o3 which are the main components for the zeolite synthesis. to perform the experiments, appropriate amount of the starting materials were mixed with 240 ml volume of 30% h2o2 at room temperature with continu...

Further agglomeration tests were conducted in a series of tests designed todetermine the effects of various parameters on the size and structure of the agglomeratesformed, the rate of agglomeration, coal recovery, and ash rejection. For this series oftests, finely ground Pittsburgh No. 8 coal has been agglomerated with i-octane in a closedmixing system with a controlled amou...

The method described below recovers zinc, a valuable metal that is present in high concentrations in filter ash from the thermal treatment of waste, and returns the filter ash stripped of heavy metals to the combustion process in order to destroy organic substances. On an industrial scale, the heavy metals in the filter ash were mobilized by means of hydrochloric acid in the acidic fluids produ...

The majority of waste plastics currently produced are either landfilled or incinerated. Plastics do not readily degrade and toxic elements can be leached from the landfill. Combustion of waste plastics can generate environmentally hazardous air pollutants such as dioxins/furans, as well as undesirable carbon dioxide. Consequently, cost effective ways of recycling the increasing amounts of gener...

Abstract—Coal fly ash, an industrial by product of coal combustion thermal power plants is considered as a hazardous material and its improper disposal has become an environmental issue. On the other hand, manufacturing conventional clay bricks involves on consumption of large amount of clay and leads substantial depletion of topsoil. This paper unveils the possibility of using fly ash as a par...