Publication Details |
| Category | Text Publication |
| Reference Category | Journals |
| DOI | 10.3846/16486897.2013.808640 |
| Title (Primary) | Environmental pollution by wastewater from brown coal processing – a remediation case study in Germany |
| Author | Wiessner, A.; Müller, J.A.; Kuschk, P.; Kappelmeyer, U.
; Kästner, M.; Liu, Y.L.; Stottmeister, U. |
| Source Titel | Journal of Environmental Engineering and Landscape Management |
| Year | 2014 |
| Department | UBT |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Page From | 71 |
| Page To | 83 |
| Language | englisch |
| Keywords | disposal pond; environmental pollution; lignite pyrolysis; remediation strategy; wastewater |
| UFZ wide themes | 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. |
| 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 |
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