Evaluation of the effectiveness of olive cake residue as an expansive soil stabilizer     

Zalihe Nalbantoglu  Salma Tawfiq 《Environmental Geology》2006,50(6):803-807

The quantity of the by-product olive cake residue generated in most parts of the Mediterranean countries continues to increase and expected to double in amount within 10–15 years. This increase intensifies the problems associated with the disposal of this by-product. Olive cake residue has a potential for use as a soil stabilizer and large volumes can be beneficially used. This study is directed toward determining if olive cake residue can be utilized to increase the strength and stability of expansive soils which constitute a costly natural hazard to lightweight structures on shallow foundations. A series of laboratory tests using engineering properties, such as Atterberg limits, moisture-density relationship (compaction), swell, unconfined compressive strength were undertaken to evaluate the effectiveness and performance of the olive cake residue as a soil stabilizer. Test results indicate that an addition of only 3% burned olive waste into the soil causes a reduction in plasticity, volume change and an increase in the unconfined compressive strength. However, it was observed that the presence of burned olive waste in the soil greater than 3% caused an increase in the compressibility and a decrease in the unconfined compressive strength. Test results indicate that the use of olive waste in soil stabilization gives greater benefits to the environment than simply disposing of the by-product, olive cake residue.  相似文献   

Permeability and compression characteristics of municipal solid waste samples     

Ertan Durmusoglu  Itza M. Sanchez  M. Yavuz Corapcioglu 《Environmental Geology》2006,50(6):773-786

Four series of laboratory tests were conducted to evaluate the permeability and compression characteristics of municipal solid waste (MSW) samples. While the two series of tests were conducted using a conventional small-scale consolidometer, the two others were conducted in a large-scale consolidometer specially constructed for this study. In each consolidometer, the MSW samples were tested at two different moisture contents, i.e., original moisture content and field capacity. A scale effect between the two consolidometers with different sizes was investigated. The tests were carried out on samples reconsolidated to pressures of 123, 246, and 369 kPa. Time settlement data gathered from each load increment were employed to plot strain versus log-time graphs. The data acquired from the compression tests were used to back calculate primary and secondary compression indices. The consolidometers were later adapted for permeability experiments. The values of indices and the coefficient of compressibility for the MSW samples tested were within a relatively narrow range despite the size of the consolidometer and the different moisture contents of the specimens tested. The values of the coefficient of permeability were within a band of two orders of magnitude (10⁻⁶–10⁻⁴ m/s). The data presented in this paper agreed very well with the data reported by previous researchers. It was concluded that the scale effect in the compression behavior was significant. However, there was usually no linear relationship between the results obtained in the tests.  相似文献   

Mineralogy, geochemistry and release of heavy metals in wastes from indigenous zinc smelting in Northwest Guizhou     

Pan WU Congqiang LIU Yuangen YANG Guoping ZHANG 《中国地球化学学报》2006,25(B08):42-42

Environmental impact resulting from mining activities is serious and ubiquitous all over the world, and it has become one of the important aspects in environmental geochemistry. The environment was seriously damaged by wastes from historical zinc smelting in Northwest Guizhou. The geochemical distributions of Pb and Zn in the different grain-size fractions of wastes indicate that the coarser particles show similar or even higher heavy metal concentrations than finer ones in the samples, although the concentrations of heavy metals tend generally to increase as the size fractions get finer. The heavy metal contents are very high, with maximum values of 31631, 57178, 2367 and 311.5 mg/kg for Pb, Zn, Cu and Cd, respectively. It is also shown that the residual fraction of Pb is less than that of Zn, accounting for 0.39%-15.75% and 14.3%-46.2%, respectively, of the total, and this is likely relative to Zn-silicate minerals formed from smelting. Although the relative partitioning of Pb and Zn is very low （0.03%- 1.3.% for Pb; 0.03% -3.3% for Zn）, the exchangeable fraction of the waste contains large amounts of heavy metals （1.5%-385 μg/g for Pb; 3-590 μg/g for Zn）. Heavy metals in exchangeable forms have the highest solubility to give the highest potential bioavailability in contrast to other chemical forms. Mineralogical study indicates that the wastes were found to be highly heterogeneous materials, dominated by quartz, feldspar, carbonatite, iron or/and aluminum vitric compounds and a few secondary mineral phases, and their contents vary with the type of smelting wastes. The secondary minerals formed from smelting and sequentially weathering are the major chemical phase for heavy metals. Complex composition of many phases and substitution of elements suggested that many of the phases were found to be non-stoichiometric compounds. Pb was found to be the main Pb phase in the wastes by precipitation or/and adsorption.  相似文献   

A comparative study of waste landfill disposal in different countries     

Hongli LI Shenggao CHENG 《中国地球化学学报》2006,25(B08):105-105

This study draws attention to the fact that natural processes can mobilize thallium （Tl）, a highly toxic metal, which may enter the food chain with severe health impacts on the local human population. A rural area having independent Tl mineralization in southwestern Guizhou, China, was chosen for a pilot study. Tl contents of soils extracted by HNO3 in the study area range from 35-165 mg/kg in soils from the mining area, 14-78 mg/kg in alluvial deposits downstream, and 〈0.2-0.5 mg/kg in soils from the background area. Tl contents in ammonium acetate EDTA-extracted fraction are 0.013-1.3 mg/kg, less than 1% of concentration in HNO3-extracted fraction. The amounts of Tl in NH4Ac-extracted fraction were thought to be more exchangeable and bioavailable, i.e., immediately available to plants and/or available to plant roots over a period of years. Tl concentration in crops exhibits species-dependent preferences. The enrichment of Tl in edible crop species decreases in the following order： green cabbage〉chili〉Chinese cabbage〉rice〉com. The highest level of Tl in green cabbage is up to 500 mg/kg （DW）, surpassing the values of Tl in the soils （13-59 mg/kg）. The enrichment factor for TI in green cabbage is up to 1-10 when considering the HNO3-extracted Tl, but the factor highly rises to 30-1300 while considering the NH4Ac-extracted Tl. The average daily uptake of Tl by the local villagers through consumption of locally planted crops was estimated at about 1.9 mg per person, which is 50 times the daily ingestion from the Tl-free background area.  相似文献   

非平衡吸附模型在研究渗滤液对土壤污染影响中的应用     

陈记文  薛强  刘磊  赵颖 《岩土力学》2006,27(12):2186-2190

分析了有机污染物在土壤中的迁移转化机理，建立了非平衡吸附作用下渗滤液中有机污染物在土壤中迁移转化的动力学模型，给出了模型的数值解法，模拟出渗滤液在非平衡吸附作用下的污染过程；同时还探讨了模型参数降雨量p，垃圾土土层的厚度h，含水率θ等对有机污染物运移的影响。结果表明：在总的污染源一定的情况下，降雨量的增大和污染土层厚度的增大会使得下层土壤中有机物的浓度降低，为定量研究有机污染物在土壤-水环境系统中分配与归宿提供理论依据，同时也可为监测、治理和恢复地下水污染提供一定的科学根据。  相似文献   

凹凸棒石吸附铅的性能及含铅废水处理研究     

宋金如  罗明标  王黎 《华东地质学院学报》2006,29(1):74-79

采用经活化处理的凹凸棒石粘土,用静态法研究了凹凸棒石粘土吸附铅的吸附酸度、吸附速率、吸附温度和吸附反应热焓以及吸附容量等性能。通过大量实验确定了凹凸棒石粘土吸附铅的最佳条件,并用静态法和交换柱法处理了不同浓度的模拟含铅废水。结果表明,两种不同方法处理效果基本一致,铅的去除率在99%以上,排放液中铅的残余浓度均小于1 mg/L,达到了国家排放标准。选用凹凸棒石粘土对铅、铬、镉等重金属离子的吸附选择性实验,以期为环境污染的控制和治理,提供实验依据。  相似文献   

固体废弃物再生陶瓷的实验研究     

陈智连  李金娜  吴金金  张培萍 《吉林大学学报(地球科学版)》2006,(Z1)

为了使垃圾焚烧发电后的二次垃圾得到合理利用,从而彻底消灭垃圾,利用长春市鑫祥垃圾焚烧发电厂的二次垃圾与适量的高岭土和石英相配比,采用干法压制成型和低温快烧工艺,制备出了性能优异的陶瓷制品。力学性能测试结果显示制品的抗弯强度为41~99.25MPa,吸水率为0.13%~6.95%。XRD、FTIR等测试分析其主晶相是石英。并在正交实验的基础上优选出了再生陶瓷的最佳配方为:二次垃圾∶高岭土∶石英=34∶39∶27,最佳烧成温度是1120℃左右。与相关标准对照可知,制品的主要研发方向为无釉陶瓷地砖、无釉瓷质砖和釉面内墙砖。  相似文献   

Research achievements and application in anaerobic treatment of organic solid wastes—— A review     

周富春熊德国  鲜学福徐龙君 《中国地球化学学报》2006,25(2):178-181

1 IntroductionSolid wastes (SW) refer to all the wastes derivedfrom human and animal activities, which are normallysolid and are discarded as useless or unwanted (Juha-Heikki Tanskanen, 2000 ). Generally, the organicfraction accounts for more than 50% -60…  相似文献   

红矸石在锚喷支护巷道中的应用          下载免费PDF全文

刘玉元  李瑞江  张京泉 《探矿工程》2006,33(2):63-65

通过对矿井锚索支护巷道喷浆骨料的各种配比试验研究，结合现场的实际应用，总结出比较适合巷道喷浆使用的采用红矸石做骨料的骨料配比方案。  相似文献   

Research achievements and application in anaerobic treatment of organic solid wastes--A review     

ZHOU Fuchun  XIONG Deguo  XIAN Xuefu  XU Longjun 《中国地球化学学报》2006,25(2)

Anaerobic digestion is a good method, which possesses the optimal combination of volume reduction, probability of success and potential for resource and energy recovery. However, relatively little research has been done on the anaerobic digestion of organic solid wastes ( OSW ), especially in China.However, different substrates, start-up conditions, micro-organisms, processing technologies, pre-treatment methods could influence the result of anaerobic digestion. Anaerobic treatment of municipal OSW is less than that of wastewaters because some problems and obstructions need to be solved. Meanwhile, the application of anaerobic digestion of OSW is also discussed in the present paper.  相似文献