Treatment Plants
Perfect for the needs of smaller populations, communities, camps, resorts & similar sized applications, the
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Based on the activated sludge process, the Zeo-Clear produces excellent effluent quality. Zeo-Clear systems
integrate secondary and tertiary wastewater treatment together in one stage with natural zeolite rock. The
microporous structure of zeolite fosters the growth of a microbial population while creating microscopic anoxic
zones which helps with nutrient removal. Treated effluents are typically of high enough quality to discharge to
percolation fields. An extra level of filtration can be added to treat the water to levels suitable for in-home
reuse or discharge to surface waterways.
The Zeo-Clear is completely pre-fabricated, pre-wired, and pre-plumbed. This makes installation as easy as
supplying power and water.
The Zeo-Clear advantage
The plug-and-play Zeo-Clear system removes the need for costly infrastructure and saves time in making
remote worksites, communities, camps and resorts operational. Zeo-Clear Systems can be installed and
brought on-line in a fraction of the time it would take to build a dedicated wastewater treatment facility at a
remote worksite. The self-contained unit also provides a significant savings in capital and operation expenses.
The Zeo-Clear delivers an average reduction in energy costs of 20 percent.
With the Zeo-Clear solution, we empower companies to move quickly into new regions and maintain a
competitive advantage. The Zeo-Clear system is completely off-the-grid, self-sustainable and portable, making
the most remote locations in the world feasible places to do business.
Mining in one form or another has existed. Since ancient times. The modern
industry has evolved by incorporating gradual improvements into common
practice. Mining in the United States can be classified in several ways.
The classification used in this chapter recognizes four segments:
Hardrock
Coal
Hard Rock
Hard rock mining produces ore for a variety of metals and minerals in the
United States. Typical operations at hard rock mines, whether underground
or open pit, include drilling, blasting, ore transporting and stockpiling, and,
usually, size reduction.
Water use in the context of hard rock mining refers to process water that is
necessary for routine functioning of the mine-mill complex, and not to
incidental water such as excess mine water, accumulated precipitation, or
other nuisance sources of water that must be dissipated.
Hard rock mines typically require water for drilling, and for any associated
size reduction facilities. Water consumption can be stated in terms of
gallons of water per ton of ore produced, except for production drilling and
site dust control.
material is crushed in a jaw crusher to intermediate is withdrawn with a sand screw (about
size rock.
three-level screen, and oversize material is returnedclassified according to size in a gravity classifier
to the jaw crusher.
Water treatment
There are a number of different treatment technologies available to clean
contaminated water; these technologies can be described as either active
or passive. Active treatment technologies require the input of energy and
chemicals, and passive treatment uses only natural processes such as
gravity, microorganisms, and/or plants in a system, any one of which
requires infrequent but regular maintenance. The treatment technology
used at a mine depends on how polluted the water is, what chemicals need
to be removed, how much water requires treatment, and the required
discharge water quality standards.
Passive water treatment is usually combined with watermonitoring programs, and takes
advantage of natural physical, chemical, and biological processes that remove water
contaminates without additional physical or chemical inputs. Examples of these processes
include bacteria-controlled metal precipitation, contaminate uptake by plants, and filtration
through soil and sediments. Although passive water treatment has been used successfully to
treat municipal wastewater and urban runoff, its use in the mining industry is still under
development, largely because of the challenge of treating highly acidic waters. Despite these
challenges, low operation and maintenance costs continue to generate interest in passive water
treatment, especially for use after mine closure.
Constructed wetlandsare the most common form of passive water technology. Constructed
wetlands act as natural purification systems which are capable of filtering and removing many
contaminates before they are transported into marine or freshwater environments. [3] However,
it is difficult to achieve ideal contaminate removal conditions, and passive water treatment
currently requires ongoing maintenance and treatment.