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Characterization of coal ash released in the TVA Kingston spill to facilitate detection of ash in river systems using magnetic methods
Ist Teil von
Fuel (Guildford), 2015-11, Vol.159, p.308-314
Ort / Verlag
Elsevier Ltd
Erscheinungsjahr
2015
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Quelle
Elsevier ScienceDirect Journals Complete
Beschreibungen/Notizen
•Kingston coal ash increases magnetic susceptibility of riverbed sediment.•Fluvial transport both enriches and dilutes the magnetic fraction of coal ash.•Micron-size magnetite and maghemite occur within aluminosilicate spheres.•Magnetospheres dominate the magnetic signal in the Watts Bar watershed.
The magnetic properties of riverbed samples collected after the 2008 Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) coal ash spill in Kingston, Tennessee are investigated. Coal ash persists in this fluvial environment because 400,000m3 of ash remains in areas that were not dredged. The magnetic fraction is low in comparison to other coal ash; 1.4wt% in a sample from the failed ash storage cell increasing to 3.0wt% in riverbed samples in the Emory River near the spill. Thermomagnetic analysis, XRD, SEM and polarized light microscopy identified magnetospheres with magnetite and maghemite from the Kingston coal ash as the magnetic carrier. Anthropogenic nonspherical magnetic particles are introduced from the industrialized Tennessee River watershed prior to reaching the Watts Bar Reservoir. A bivariate plot of anhysteretic remanent magnetization (ARM) versus mass-normalized low field magnetic susceptibility (χLF) models the mixing of ash in the rivers, identifying both enrichment of magnetospheres by sorting near the spill and dilution with native sediment downstream. Concentration-dependent magnetic parameters in ash-bearing samples are approximately 2–56 times stronger than those of the ash-free watershed samples. This study supports the use of magnetic parameters to track the ash as it is eroded and transported 71km downstream to the Watts Bar Dam and suggests that χLF can be utilized to track the migration of coal ash in other river systems.