The development of effective, and economical pre-development waste rock management plans requires an accurate estimate of the quality of drainage generated during mining. This study was conducted to determine if a simple accelerated rock weathering method with lower capital and personnel costs can be used in lieu of the elaborate and costly ASTM method to predict the quality of drainage generated. It involves subjecting rock samples to a constant relative humidity and temperature for 7 days and leach flooding the weathered samples on the 7th day.The acid production rate from the new weathering method correlates quite well with the net neutralization potential generated from the standard acid-base accounting procedure (R2=0.940) which has been demonstrated to be correct 90% of the time in assessing overburden quality, and a mineralogical method (R2=0.924). For investigators interested in generating weathering kinetic parameters, the simple and less costly accelerated weathering method is proposed. 相似文献
The present study is based mainly upon the authors' hydrochemical and hydrobiological studies of small silicate streams in South-West Germany, principally in the Black Forest and the Odenwald.
The aim of the paper is the adaptation of a practically proven four-level biological classification system of different degrees of acidity using benthic maroinvertebrates to a five-level system of acidification of mainly upland streams with low buffer capacity. The main reason for such a five-class system is the Water Framework Directive of the European Union (EU WFD), which lays down a five-level classification system for the assessment of the ecological quality of waters.
The biological method of assessing the state of acidity for evaluation of the degree of anthropogenic acidification under the directive, and principles of the EU WFD, are also described. A list of 278 taxa of the macrozoobenthos has been reclassified from a four-level system to a five-level biological indication system, based upon the authors' scientific expertise and the latest references from literature of different acid sensitive areas in Germany. 相似文献
A procedure that uses the structural damping (SD) concept for estimating the capacity of a pile based on the Statnamic (STN) pile load test results, formerly used by the authors for short piles, is extended in this paper for the STN tested long piles. Similar to segmental unloading point method procedures for long piles, the shaft length is divided into several segments and each segment is assumed to behave as a mass of a single degree of freedom. The SD concept is then applied to each segment to consider the displacement related soil damping instead of the velocity dependent damping. Instrumented strain gauge data at different levels of the shaft are required for the interpretation method. Three case studies are presented in this paper to study the validity and applicability of the present method. The predicted results are also compared to the available test or analytical data. 相似文献
The effect of incorporated aerosols on droplet pH was investigated by dissolution experiments on various particle types. These experiments conducted in an open-flow system show that the pH changes induced by aerosol solubilisation last up to 30 min, in the range of a typical droplet lifetime. These pH changes depend upon the initial pH of the experiment, i.e., the pH at cloud condensation. In the pH range between 3 and 5, the pH varies the most when it is high, since the base agents leached from the particles are neutralised by the protons present in the aqueous phase. A relationship between the neutralising capacity of the aerosol (NCA), i.e., the amount of uncompensated base species, and the pH after neutralisation has been found. Other experiments show that the NCA is related to the aerosol composition: silicates present more or less pronounced NCA, whereas C graphite presents a negative NCA, i.e., an acidifying capacity. The aerosol composition can be modified during cloud evapocondensation, notably by the addition of sulphate or sulphuric acid to the aerosol surface. NCA modification with cloud processing is observed when the amount of dissolved acid is larger than the neutralising capacity of the aerosol, i.e., when the droplet pH is less than a compensation pH characteristic of the aerosol type. 相似文献
The so-called Nonlinear Static Procedure (NSP) based on pushover analysis has been developed in the last decade as a practical
engineering tool to estimate the inelastic response quantities in the framework of performance-based seismic evaluation of
structures. However NSP suffers from a major drawback in that it is restricted with a single-mode response and therefore the
procedure can be reliably applied only to the two-dimensional response of low-rise, regular buildings. Recognizing the continuously
intensifying use of the pushover-based NSP in the engineering practice, the present paper attempts to develop a new pushover
analysis procedure to cater for the multi-mode response in a practical and theoretically consistent manner. The proposed Incremental
Response Spectrum Analysis (IRSA) procedure is based on the approximate development of the so-called modal capacity diagrams,
which are defined as the backbone curves of the modal hysteresis loops. Modal capacity diagrams are used for the estimation
of instantaneous modal inelastic spectral displacements in a piecewise linear process called pushover-history analysis. It
is illustrated through an example analysis that the proposed IRSA procedure can estimate with a reasonable accuracy the peak
inelastic response quantities of interest, such as story drift ratios and plastic hinge rotations as well as the story shears
and overturning moments. A practical version of the procedure is also developed which is based on the code-specified smooth
response spectrum and the well-known equal displacement rule.
This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献