scholarly journals Case Study of Insufficient Resistance to Mining Impacts of the Industrial Transport Gallery

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 109-115
Author(s):  
Wojciech Kocot ◽  
Aleksander Wodyński
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Plants ◽  
Mining Impacts ◽  
Low Resistance ◽  
Mining Areas

The article presents an example of a transport gallery, which resistance to mining impacts proved to be not enough. In the first part of the article, there are given the principles which should be followed by this type of structures. The second part presents a of the gallery’s structure and also the analysis of the reasons for too low resistance of the objectdescription to mining influences. It has been shown that these reasons are design, execution and exploitation errors. In turn, there are presented procedures which are leading to the assurance of the resistance of the transport gallery in accordance with design assumptions. In summary, conclusions and recommendations which are formulated should be taken into account at the stage of design, erection and during exploitation of transport galleries in the industrial plants localized in mining areas. ANALIZA PRZYPADKU NIEWYSTARCZAJĄCEJ ODPORNOŚCI NA WPŁYWY GÓRNICZE PRZEMYSŁOWEJ GALERII TRANSPORTOWEJ W artykule przedstawiono przykład galerii transportowej, której odporność na wpływy górnicze okazała się niewystarczająca. W pierwszej części artykułu podano zasady, jakim powinny odpowiadać tego typu obiekty budowlane. W części drugiej przedstawiono opis konstrukcji przedmiotowej galerii oraz przeanalizowano przyczyny zbyt niskiej odporności obiektu na wpływy górnicze. Wykazano, że są to zarówno błędy projektowe, jak i wykonawcze oraz eksploatacyjne. Z kolei przedstawiono zabiegi zmierzające do zapewnienia galerii transportowej odporności zgodnej z założeniami projektowymi. W podsumowaniu sformułowano wnioski i zalecenia, które powinny być uwzględniane na etapie projektowania i budowy oraz podczas eksploatacji galerii transportowych w zakładach przemysłowych usytuowanych na terenach górniczych.

SEISMIC RISK AND RESILIENCE ASSESSMENT OF INDUSTRIAL FACILITIES: CASE STUDY ON A BLACK CARBON PLANT

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
George Karagiannakis
Keyword(s):  
Seismic Risk ◽  
Numerical Models ◽  
Fragility Curves ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Mitigation Strategies ◽  
Economic Losses ◽  
Risk And Resilience ◽  
Industrial Plants ◽  
Plant Equipment

This paper deals with state of the art risk and resilience calculations for industrial plants. Resilience is a top priority issue on the agenda of societies due to climate change and the all-time demand for human life safety and financial robustness. Industrial plants are highly complex systems containing a considerable number of equipment such as steel storage tanks, pipe rack-piping systems, and other installations. Loss Of Containment (LOC) scenarios triggered by past earthquakes due to failure on critical components were followed by severe repercussions on the community, long recovery times and great economic losses. Hence, facility planners and emergency managers should be aware of possible seismic damages and should have already established recovery plans to maximize the resilience and minimize the losses. Seismic risk assessment is the first step of resilience calculations, as it establishes possible damage scenarios. In order to have an accurate risk analysis, the plant equipment vulnerability must be assessed; this is made feasible either from fragility databases in the literature that refer to customized equipment or through numerical calculations. Two different approaches to fragility assessment will be discussed in this paper: (i) code-based Fragility Curves (FCs); and (ii) fragility curves based on numerical models. A carbon black process plant is used as a case study in order to display the influence of various fragility curve realizations taking their effects on risk and resilience calculations into account. Additionally, a new way of representing the total resilience of industrial installations is proposed. More precisely, all possible scenarios will be endowed with their weighted recovery curves (according to their probability of occurrence) and summed together. The result is a concise graph that can help stakeholders to identify critical plant equipment and make decisions on seismic mitigation strategies for plant safety and efficiency. Finally, possible mitigation strategies, like structural health monitoring and metamaterial-based seismic shields are addressed, in order to show how future developments may enhance plant resilience. The work presented hereafter represents a highly condensed application of the research done during the XP-RESILIENCE project, while more detailed information is available on the project website https://r.unitn.it/en/dicam/xp-resilience.

scholarly journals Just Transition as a Tool for Preventing Energy Poverty among Women in Mining Areas—A Case Study of the Silesia Region, Poland

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (12) ◽  
pp. 3372
Author(s):  
Olga Janikowska ◽  
Joanna Kulczycka
Keyword(s):  
Age Groups ◽  
Single Women ◽  
Coal Industry ◽  
Major Conclusion ◽  
Energy Transformation ◽  
Energy Poverty ◽  
Mining Areas ◽  
Transition Strategy ◽  
Mining Regions

The inevitable energy transformation can be perceived as an opportunity and as a threat to the actions undertaken to prevent energy poverty in European mining regions. Silesia is a special exemplification of the European region whose economy has been based on coal industry for centuries. There are still about 70,000 miners and coal is also widely used for heating households. Based on developed map of jobs lost in mining and related industry and the demographic and social data the proposal of activities addressed to different group of people has been created. It was also indicated that energy poverty in Poland mainly concerns households inhabited by single women. Therefore, the major conclusion of the paper is postulated that the Just Transition strategy should be extended by issues strictly related to the situation of women in the future labor market. Additionally, the concept of a special hub for women, whose aim would be professional activation of women of various age groups, has been introduced.

scholarly journals The proposal to transform an old limestone quarry into a botanical garden with a rainforest zone: a case study

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-142
Author(s):  
Daria Słonina ◽  
Grzegorz Kusza ◽  
Mateusz Mikołajów
Keyword(s):  
Main Idea ◽  
Botanical Garden ◽  
Original Research ◽  
Regional Culture ◽  
Great Role ◽  
Limestone Quarry ◽  
Landscape Type ◽  
Mining Areas ◽  
Selection Of

Nowadays, a significant part of cities is tackling the problems with post-mining areas. This manuscript is an original research which shows possibilities of their reclamation. The aim of the article is to present the proposal of developing the closed limestone quarry and creating a botanical garden. The proposed spatial solutions allow for creating a new, tourist and recreation space, maintaining the natural heritage. The work also assumed carrying out a dendrological inventory, in order to determine the existing dendrofl ora. The required spatial, nature and communication analyses, which illustrate the current condition of the area and defi ne further design works, have also been carried out. The main idea of the project was to maintain the particular biodiversity, combined with regional culture and its continuous development. This type of assumption aims not only at protection of endangered species. It also has a great role in shaping the awareness of natural environment of various social groups. The creation of a rainforest substitute in the Opole Botanical Garden was possible through selection of the existing afforestation, considering its adaptation as well as through liquidation and introduction of new trees, shrubs, perennial and climbing plants, which shall emphasise the tropical landscape type by their shapes, texture and colours. The project includes many elements, which reflect the general image of humid rainforests. The planned vegetation in connection with the appropriately selected architecture shall undoubtedly influence visitors’ senses, transferring them to the ‘wild’ and mysterious part of the world.

scholarly journals Mining Impacts on Society: A Case Study of Taita Taveta County, Kenya

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 986-997
Author(s):  
Irene Wakio Mwakesi ◽  
Raphael Githaiga Wahome ◽  
Daniel Weru Ichang’i
Keyword(s):  
Mining Impacts

scholarly journals Evaluation of the Impacts of Abandoned Mining Areas: A Case Study with Benthic Macroinvertebrate Assemblages

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (21) ◽  
pp. 11132
Author(s):  
Mi-Jung Bae ◽  
Jeong-Ki Hong ◽  
Eui-Jin Kim
Keyword(s):  
Stream Sediments ◽  
Mining Activity ◽  
Benthic Macroinvertebrate ◽  
Mining Activities ◽  
Self Organizing Map ◽  
Macroinvertebrate Communities ◽  
Mining Impacts ◽  
Mining Areas ◽  
Management Plans ◽  
Self Organizing

Mining activities are among the most long-lasting anthropogenic pressures on streams and rivers. Therefore, detecting different benthic macroinvertebrate assemblages in the areas recovered from mining activities is essential to establish conservation and management plans for improving the freshwater biodiversity in streams located near mining areas. We compared the stability of benthic macroinvertebrate communities between streams affected by mining activities (Hwangjicheon: NHJ and Cheolamcheon: NCA) and the least disturbed stream (Songjeonricheon: NSJ) using network analysis, self-organizing map, and indicator species analysis. Species richness was lowest at sites where stream sediments were reddened or whitened due to mining impacts in NHJ and NCA. Among functional feeding groups, the ratio of scrapers was lower (i.e., NHJ) or not observed (i.e., NCA) in the affected sites by mining. The networks (species interactions) were less connected in NHJ and NCA than in NSJ, indicating that community stability decreased in the area affected by mining activity. We identified five groups based on the similarity of benthic macroinvertebrate communities according to the gradients of mining impacts using a self-organizing map. the samples from the reference stream (clusters 1 and 5), sites located near the mining water inflow area (cluster 4), sites where stream sediments acid-sulfated (cluster 2), and sites that had recovered from mining impacts (cluster 3). Among the 40 taxa selected as indicators defined from the five clusters in self-organizing map, only few (Physa acuta, Tipula KUa, and Nemoura KUb) indicator species were selected in each cluster representing the mining-impacted sites. Our results highlighted that the benthic macroinvertebrate community complexity was lower in streams affected by mining activity. Furthermore, the range of disturbed areas in the streams, where conservation and management plans should be prioritized, can be quantified by examining alterations in the benthic macroinvertebrate community.

scholarly journals Impact of potash mining in streams: the Llobregat basin (northeast Spain) as a case study

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruben Ladrera ◽  
Miguel Cañedo-Argüelles ◽  
Narcís Prat
Keyword(s):  
Surface Waters ◽  
Mine Tailings ◽  
Ecological Status ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Mining Areas ◽  
Potash Mining ◽  
Rivers And Streams ◽  
Fluvial Habitat ◽  
Good Ecological Status

Potash mining is significantly increasing the salt concentration of rivers and streams due to lixiviates coming from the mine tailings. In the present study, we have focused on the middle Llobregat basin (northeast Spain), where an important potash mining activity exists from the beginning of the XX century. Up to 50 million tonnes of saline waste have been disposed in the area, mainly composed of sodium chloride. We assessed the ecological status of streams adjacent to the mines by studying different physicochemical and hydromorphological variables, as well as aquatic macroinvertebrates. We found extraordinary high values of salinity in the studied streams, reaching conductivities up to 132.4 mS/cm. Salt-polluted streams were characterized by a deterioration of the riparian vegetation and the fluvial habitat. Both macroinvertebrate richness and abundance decreased with increasing salinity. In the most polluted stream only two families of macroinvertebrates were found: Ephydridae and Ceratopogonidae. According to the biotic indices IBMWP and IMMi-T, none of the sites met the requirements of the Water Framework Directive (WFD; i.e., good ecological status). Overall, we can conclude that potash-mining activities have the potential to cause severe ecological damage to their surrounding streams. This is mainly related to an inadequate management of the mine tailings, leading to highly saline runoff and percolates entering surface waters. Thus, we urge water managers and policy makers to take action to prevent, detect and remediate salt pollution of rivers and streams in potash mining areas.

A Disaster Risk Management Performance Index to Assess Safety and Security in Industrial Plants

2016 ◽  
Vol 841 ◽  
pp. 373-378 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabio de Felice ◽  
Antonella Petrillo ◽  
Federico Zomparelli
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Performance Index ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Disaster Risk ◽  
Disaster Risk Management ◽  
Management Performance ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy ◽  
Industrial Plants ◽  
Hierarchy Process

The goal of the research is to present an integrated approach that combines multi criteria analysis and disaster and emergency management. The study is based on a well know multi criteria technique, the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). An AHP model is proposed in order to define a Disaster Risk Management Performance Index (DRMPI) that quantifies the performance and effectiveness of risk management to evaluate emergency alternative problems. This model is implemented in a real case study.

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