Coal Combustion By-Products and Western Coal Mines: A Technical Interactive Forum. Proceedings of Coal Combustion By-Products and Western Coal Mines: A Technical Interactive Forum held April 16-18, 2002 at the Denver Marriott West Hotel, Golden, Colorado

摘要

;Partial Contents: Foreword; Steering Committee Members; Sponsors and Supporters; What is a Technical Interactive Forum; Steering Committee Recommendations; Coal Mining and Reclamation with Coal Combustion By-Products: An Overview; Session 1: Coal Combustion By-Products: The Basics (Coal Combustion Products-Production and Uses, Physical and Chemical Characteristics of CCB, Western Region Fly Ash Survey, ASTM Standards to Support Mine Application of CCBs, Coal Combustion Residues and Mercury Control); Session 2: Testing and Terminology (Are You Using the Appropriate Coal Combustion By-Products (CCBs) And Coal Combustion Products (CCPs) Terminology in Your Coal Mining Reclamation Applications, Instrumentation for Elemental Analysis of Coal Ash Products, Evaluating CCBs for Environmental Performance, Evaluation of Physical Properties and Engineering Performance of CCBs in the Laboratory and the Field, Andrew Stewart, Power Products Engineering, Eden Prairie, Minnesota Environmental Tracers of Leachate Derived from Pressurized Fluidized Bed Combustion By-Products in an Abandoned Coal Mine Setting, QA/QC and Variability of CCBs Relating to Mine Applications); Session 3: Western Mining Applications/Case Studies (Ashes to Ashes: Returning CCBs to the Ground at the Navajo Mine, Coalstrip Steam Electric Station/Coal Combustion By-Products Disposal, Hydrologic Monitoring and CCB Placement at Trapper Mine, Mitigation of Underground Coal Mines, Monitoring and Environmental Performance of CCB Disposal Activities at Great River Energy's Coal Creek Station, OSM's Perspective on CCB Disposal on Native American Lands); Session 4: Environmental Impacts to Groundwater (Field Scale Study Results for the Beneficial Use of Coal Ash as Fill Material in Saturated Conditions Varra Coal Ash Burial Project Weld County Colorado, CCB Leaching Summary: Survey of Methods and Results; Water Quality at a Coal Ash Filled Surface Coal Mine Pit in Indiana, Mine Placement of CCPs Data Collection and Risk Assessment: MRAM-An International and Interagency Cooperative Project, Microbial Release of Mercury from Coal Combustion By-Products, Environmental Performance of CCPs); Session 5: CCB Regulatory Direction (Overview of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Coal Combustion Waste Mine Fill Issues, State/Federal Initiative Addressing Mine Placement of Coal Combustion Wastes, Federal Legal and Regulatory Issues Affecting Placement of CCBs in Mines, Industry Perspective on CCP Regulatory Direction, North Dakota Regulatory Perspective, Descriptions of State of Colorado Regulatory Programs Associated with Coal Combustion Waste (CCW) Mine Placement, The Disposal of Power Plant Waste in Mines: Public Health, Environmental, and Regulatory Concerns, The Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act: A Response to Concerns about Placement of Coal Combustion By-Products at Coal Mines).