ALGORITHM FOR ASSESING SOIL REHABILITATION OF STERILE DUMPS

Andreea  BRASOVAN; Ramona Flavia  BURTESCU; Neli-Kinga  OLAH; Ioan  PETEAN; Vlad Aurel  CODREA; Andrei Bucurel  BURTESCU

doi:10.24193/subbchem.2017.2.06

ALGORITHM FOR ASSESING SOIL REHABILITATION OF STERILE DUMPS

Authors

Andreea BRASOVAN Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Corresponding author: olah.neli@uvvg.ro.
Ramona Flavia BURTESCU Faculty of Pharmacy, Vasile Goldiș Western University, Arad; SC PlantExtrakt SRL, Rădaia, Cluj, Romania. Email: ramona.burtescu@plantextrakt.ro. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4370-4668
Neli-Kinga OLAH Faculty of Pharmacy, Vasile Goldiș Western University, Arad; SC PlantExtrakt SRL, Rădaia, Cluj, Romania. Email: olah.neli@uvvg.ro. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5204-6885
Ioan PETEAN Research Center of Physical Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Email: ipetean@chem.ubbcluj.ro. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3274-8817
Vlad Aurel CODREA Department of Geology, Faculty of Biology and Geology, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Email: vlad.codrea@ubbcluj.ro. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3992-955X
Andrei Bucurel BURTESCU Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Mechatronics, Technical University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Corresponding author: olah.neli@uvvg.ro.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24193/subbchem.2017.2.06

Keywords:

coal mining, coal dump, rehabilitation, mineralogy, Petroşani Basin, Romania

Abstract

Ileana Veche is the most representative waste rock (sterile) dump formed by the coal mining activities in Lupeni (Petroşani Basin). We developed an algorithm based on the computational engineering concepts in order to establish the connection between the waste rock soil particles composition and the dump rehabilitation by Scots Pine (Pinus sylvestris). The results show that the Ileana Veche pit coal dump features minerals suitable for plants growth like: calcite, biotite, potassium feldspar and chemically inert one as quartz. The quantitative measurements prove that the soil minerals are enough to allow a fair growing of the P. sylvestris population able to start the soil type conversion from the entiantrosoil type to a more fertile one. The measurements found that the upper soil presents humus formation and features nitrogen and phosphorous while these elements are missing in the deeper layer.

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STUDIA UBB CHEMIA, Volume 62 (LXII), No. 2, Tome I, June 2017

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2017-06-01

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BRASOVAN, A. ., BURTESCU, R. F. ., OLAH, N.-K. ., PETEAN, I. ., CODREA, V. A. ., & BURTESCU, A. B. . (2017). ALGORITHM FOR ASSESING SOIL REHABILITATION OF STERILE DUMPS. Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Chemia, 62(2), 81–93. https://doi.org/10.24193/subbchem.2017.2.06