A process for treating waste from a pithead power plant and sequestrating carbon dioxide discharged therefrom is provided. A mixed material of solid waste from the power plant, cement and a mixing liquid is filled into a depleted coal mine and compacted. A hydrating liquid is then injected into the filler after compaction to cause hydration. After that, carbon dioxide discharged from the power plant is injected to mineralize the carbon dioxide, thereby achieving carbon dioxide sequestration and reinforcement of the depleted coal mine. The invention utilizes abundant basic oxides present in the solid waste, and the fact that calcium hydroxide and tobermorite present in the hydrated cement chemically react with the injected carbon dioxide to produce stable carbonates in solid, and thus simultaneously achieves carbon dioxide sequestration, treatment of solid waste, and reinforcement of a depleted coal mine.

A method for industrial refining of coal ash created in power plants and carbonaceous ashes produced in other combustion processes by separating coal from said ashes and returning it to use and by recovering a substantially coal-free ash fraction obtained in the refining. In the method, coal ash and at least one ash fraction created by gasification technique in combustion plants are carefully proportioned in relation to one another and formed into a slurry mixture by means of an efficient dispersion technique, the slurry being then led to a flotation step, where a fraction rich in coal and a siliceous fraction poor in coal and a fraction dissolving in the process water are separated by flotation. The coal ash is arranged to have the highest proportion in the mixture to be taken to flotation, the ashes from combustion plants being dosed into said mixture in an amount that does not cause the maximum amounts of harmful substances to be exceeded in the qualities of the carbonaceous product and the silicate product poor in coal to be obtained.

A method for lining an existing waste disposal site having a waste level includes, for example: installing perimeter barrier walls about the site and interior barrier walls within the perimeter barrier walls to define cells; transferring waste, such as for example ash, from one of the cells to one or more other cells to form an empty cell with a layer of contaminated material at the bottom of the empty cell; removing the layer of contaminated material from the empty cell to form a clean cell with a noncontaminated bottom layer; installing a barrier liner layer in the clean cell to form a lined cell; and transferring waste from other cells into the lined cell.

A processing apparatus for removing dioxin in fly ash from domestic waste incineration by using a ball mill includes a grinder as well as a feeding body and a discharging body that are separately arranged at both ends of the grinder. In the present disclosure, an induction coil is electrified by arranging a heating body to generate an alternating magnetic field such that eddies generate on an inner wall of a grinding cylinder in the induction coil, the grinding cylinder is heated by the energy of these eddies, making a grinding ball thermally desorb and decompose a harmful component, that is, dioxin in the fly ash through a high temperature when grinding the fly ash from the domestic waste incineration since a temperature in the grinding cylinder reaches 300-500 C. during grinding.

Systems and methods of the present invention include a method for the treatment of drilling wastes and coal combustion residues, comprising combining at least a first drilling waste with coal combustion residues to form a paste, combining at least a second drilling waste with coal combustion residues to form a compactable fill, and placing the paste and the compactable fill in a landfill. Other embodiments include a method of treating drilling wastes and coal combustion residues, comprising combining at least one drilling waste with a coal combustion residue to form a paste. Further embodiments include containing the paste within at least one geotextile container. Still further embodiments include placing the geotextile container in a landfill.

Methods treat ash from waste incineration, wherein the methods at least comprise: a) the digestion of the ash by a leaching liquor containing phosphate ions in solution such as to form a first solid phase comprising impurities and a first liquid phase comprising phosphate ions; and b) the separation of said first liquid phase comprising phosphate ions from said first solid phase. Step a) is carried out for a duration of less than one hour or at a temperature of more than 40 C.

A coupled medium-low temperature flue gas processing apparatus for fly ash washing includes a reactor and scraping rings. In the present disclosure, arranging the scraping rings can scrape the fly ash adhered to the inside of the reactor and bring the scraped fly ash into a mixing liquor to prevent the fly ash from adhering and accumulating, which not only results in the decrease of the fly ash content participating in the reaction, and the difficulty to react with water completely, but also the fly ash adhered to the inside of the reactor will form a thick object after mixing with the water, once the thick object is dried, the adhesive capacity thereof is greatly enhanced.

A method of distributing ashes by forming water soluble solid product(s) with the ashes. Upon wetting the water soluble product(s), the binder releases in a period of about time thereby allowing the ashes to dissipate into nature while minimizing the likelihood of having airborne ash.

A method for preparing composites of polymer and fly ash particles, wherein the fly ash particles contains heterogeneous compositions of carbon and metal oxides, the method including: the steps of mixing the fly ash particles and an aqueous coating solution, including: a coating component selected from the group consisting of monomers, oligomers, pre-polymers, polymers, and combinations thereof, and an aqueous solvent serving to dissolve the coating component; and, while performing the step of mixing, initiating polymerization or crosslinking or both polymerization and crosslinking of the coating component to at least partially coat the fly ash particles with polymer or a crosslinked polymer network that agglomerates the fly ash particles and coats the surface of the fly ash particles, wherein the polymer or crosslinked polymer network formed in the step of initiating is hydrophobic.

A cement solidification device for waste includes a slurrying vessel 14 that dissolves and slurries waste 11 containing harmful substances and deliquescent compounds in solvent water 12 to obtain slurried material 13; an iron-based additive supply unit 16 that adds an iron-based additive 15 to the slurrying vessel 14; a cement kneading vessel 20 that adds a cement solidifying agent 17 from a cement-solidifying agent supply unit 18 to the slurried material 13 in which the iron-based additive 15 is mixed to obtain a cement kneaded product 19; and a cement solidification unit 22 that cures the cement kneaded product 19 to form a cement solidified product 21.