Abstract
The aim of this study is to identify the characteristics of hazardous substances of coal ash and to evaluate the environmental contamination possibility in order to enable the recycling of coal ash generated in thermal power plants. Currently, the various requirements for the activation coal ash (bottom ash) thermal power plant recycling of emitters and are also required by law to be considered as the country’s environmental impact on the environment of large amounts of recycling coal ash. In South Korea’s national assembly in requesting an environmental impact if the potential for soil and groundwater that can occur when you recycle roadbed, cover soil of coal ash were performed in this study. Based on this study we intend to develop a plan to expand the use of recycled coal ash. There are 10 coal-fired thermal power plants in Korea. About 8.6 million tons of coal ash was generated from those power plants in 2012. Coal ash is composed of fly ash (82%) and bottom ash (18%). While most of the fly ash is recycled as ready-mix concrete admixtures and cement additives, bottom ash is left unused in landfill located within power plant. So, in this study we assessed the recyclability of the bottom ash generated by Samcheonpo and Hadong thermal power plant. The concentrations of hazardous substances contained in coal ash (bottom ash) were generally lower than criteria for contaminants in soil and standard for hazardous substances contained in designated waste. Result of column leaching test for potential environmental impact assessment indicated that increased leaching led to reduced ionic strength of coal ash. Heavy metals did not show any clear pattern of decreased concentration; however the level of heavy metals in coal ash was generally low. Ecological toxicity in the effluent from column was the level of wastewater disposal criteria (2TU) of Korea, which is judged to be not concerned level in environmental aspects.
Highlights
Coal ash is generated after combustion of coal or anthracite in 1,600°C in thermal power plants, separated by fly ash and bottom ash [1]
The samples were collected from Samcheonpo thermal power plant and Hadong thermal power plant
10% of the coal used is generated in coal ash, 80% of which are captured by the electrostatic precipitator fly ash, the remaining 20% is deposited on the boiler bottom in the form of flooring
Summary
Coal ash is generated after combustion of coal or anthracite in 1,600°C in thermal power plants, separated by fly ash and bottom ash [1]. The thermal power plants of various countries, including the United States and Europe has been continuously developed and applied to a variety of recycling methods and environmentally friendly processing techniques for utilizing coal ash [3]. In domestic power plant generation is to offer a variety of needs for the activation of the coal ash recycling, whereby the environmental impact study that could occur with use of a large amount of coal ash is a situation that is desired. We evaluated the recyclability of the soil of these; in particular, we evaluated the environmental impacts such as groundwater and soil in an environmental standpoint To this end, in the study confirmed that the harmful substances contained in the coal ash characteristics, and coal ash was investigated the change of the harmful substances in the elution pattern when use is mixed with soil. Through this study was to evaluate the environmental impacts due to recycling of the soil
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