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Kategorie Textpublikation
Referenztyp Zeitschriften
DOI 10.3846/16486897.2013.808640
Titel (primär) Environmental pollution by wastewater from brown coal processing – a remediation case study in Germany
Autor Wiessner, A.; Müller, J.A.; Kuschk, P.; Kappelmeyer, U. ORCID logo ; Kästner, M.; Liu, Y.L.; Stottmeister, U.
Quelle Journal of Environmental Engineering and Landscape Management
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
Department UBT
Band/Volume 22
Heft 1
Seite von 71
Seite bis 83
Sprache englisch
Keywords disposal pond; environmental pollution; lignite pyrolysis; remediation strategy; wastewater
UFZ Querschnittsthemen RU3;
Abstract The large scale of the contamination by the former carbo-chemical industry in Germany requires new and
often interdisciplinary approaches for performing an economically sustainable remediation. For example, a highly toxic and dark-colored phenolic wastewater from a lignite pyrolysis factory was filled into a former open-cast pit, forming a large wastewater disposal pond. This caused an extensive environmental pollution, calling for an 15 ecologically and economically acceptable strategy for remediation. Laboratory-scale investigations and pilot-scale tests were carried out. The result was the development of a strategy for an implementation of full-scale enhanced in situ natural attenuation on the basis of separate habitats in a meromictic pond. Long-term monitoring of the chemical and biological dynamics of the pond demonstrates the metamorphosis of a former highly polluted industrial waste deposition into a nature-integrated ecosystem with reduced danger for the environment, and 20 confirmed the strategy for the chosen remediation management.
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Wiessner, A., Müller, J.A., Kuschk, P., Kappelmeyer, U., Kästner, M., Liu, Y.L., Stottmeister, U. (2014):
Environmental pollution by wastewater from brown coal processing – a remediation case study in Germany
J. Environ. Eng. Landsc. Manag. 22 (1), 71 - 83 10.3846/16486897.2013.808640