INTELLIGENTMINE WATER MANAGEMENT IMINEWA
LABORATORY OF GREEN CHEMISTRY
Christian WOLKERSDORFERMika SILLANPÄÄ
Laboratory of Green Chem
istry
CONTENT OF PRESENTATION
• What is iMineWa?• Main Goals• The key contents • The main stages • Main tasks • Your participation• Path forward
Laboratory of Green Chem
istryWHAT IS IMINEWA? INTELLIGENT MINE WATER MANAGEMEMT • iMineWa aims to improve current mine water management
technologies by• Improving existing technologies e.g.• Internet of mine water• Technological age of mining
• Implementing existing technologies e.g. • Electrocoagulation• Integrated Membrane technologies
• Researching new technologies e.g.• Valorisation of mine water• New materials• New sensors
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MAIN GOALS
• Enhance the technology age of mining• Bring mine water management to next stage• Instead of purifying a waste produce a resource• Getting rid of old habits (e.g. liming)• Enable the mining industry to produce at lower costs and
environmentally friendly• Contribute to valorisation of mine water• Understand the hydrodynamics of flooded mines
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MINE WATER – PAST AND CURRENT SITUATION
Collection
Polluted Water
Pumping
TreatmentSludge
Dis
posa
l
Brine
Mine Water
Receiving Water Course
Past
an d
Cur
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Past and Current
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– T h
e Fu
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iMineWa – The Future
Laboratory of Green Chem
istry
INTELLIGENT MINE WATER – THE FUTURE
Collection
Polluted Water
Pumping
TreatmentSludge
Dis
posa
l
Brine
Mine Water
Receiving Water Course
Past
an d
Cur
ren t
Past and Current
iMin
eWa
– T h
e Fu
ture
iMineWa – The Future
Selective Collection Selective Collection
Clean Water Enriched Water
Transmission | RFID
on-line Monitoring Sampling
Pumping Pumping
Geothermal Plant
Energy
Metals
Semimetals
Fertilizers
Winning Operation
Analyses
Data Processing
„Internet of Water“
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MAIN CONTENTS
• Extract valuables in the mine water• convert them into commodities using• available and to be developed concepts and techniques
• Use smart technology to manage mine water• underground• during transportation• in the winning process
• Improve tracer techniques • understand the hydrodynamics of mine water
• Improve sensor technology for mine water winning• Use of geothermal energy in the mine water
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MAIN STAGES
• Identify gaps in current and past mine water technology• Identify techniques that can be used to extract (semi-)metals from liquid
solutions• Improve mine water tracer techniques• Use various elements of existing technology to extract (semi-)metals from
mine water in the lab and the pilot scale• Implement technique into an operating or abandoned mine in Finland• Improve nano-technology as a means to extract (semi-)metals from
enriched water• Use biotechnology to concentrate the valuables in the mine water• Identify the potential of geothermally using the mine water within the
winning process• Develop improved sensor technologies to control, fine-tune and
communicate the winning process
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MAIN TASKS
• Providing a technological concept for managing mine water• “smart technology”
• Installing a pilot plant • winning of valuables in polluted mine water
• Co-operation with international and national partners• Dissemination of knowledge
• short courses • conferences
• Spreading of results • conferences• magazines relevant for the mining industry • SCI listed journals
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PATH FORWARD
• Fill the gaps in current mine water management
• From “mine water treatment” to “mine water winning”
• Lets start a paradigm shift
or even
• Let’s initiate a paradigm change
• Together!
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