2002 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Active Treatment of Polluted Mine Waters
verfasst von : Paul L. Younger, Steven A. Banwart, Robert S. Hedin
Erschienen in: Mine Water
Verlag: Springer Netherlands
Enthalten in: Professional Book Archive
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Before about 1980 (e.g. Barton, 1978), the only proven technologies for mine water treatment were those which we now term “active treatment”. Active treatment is conventional waste water engineering applied to mine waters. The following formal definition of active treatment emphasizes the ways in which it differs from passive treatment (see Chapter 5):
“Active treatment is the improvement of water quality by methods which require ongoing inputs of artificial energy and/or (bio)chemical reagents”