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Intensive coal mining over the region of Lusatia covers a large area in southern Brandenburg and Saxony. Post mining this region has been filled with water resulting in lake formation. People living in the vicinity of mining area believe that the lake formation will increase convective precipitation in the neighboring area which shall lead to weathering of their structures. This was the prime reason to investigate the Lusatia region. The study about the impact of lake was carried out using data and CCLM simulation analyses.
For data analysis, stations Senftenberg, Cottbus and Elsterheide-Geierswalde were selected. For the analysis, six 10 years running time series, CPDF were analyzed for all the three stations. Last three time series included the period of lake formation at station Elsterheide-Geierswalde. The CPDF time series showed little deviation for station Elsterheide-Geierswalde as compared to that for other two stations during lake formation periods. But in absence of parameters (temperature, wind data) data analysis was inconclusive.
To observe effect of LULC (Land use and land cover) change on precipitation, three different simulations have been carried out,
1. VAT010: This simulation represents the potential vegetation of the whole domain. This describes the pre mining stage of the area when there was no mining.
2. VAT020: This simulation represents the introduction of lake points in the model domain. This describes the situation of area post mining, when lakes are formed.
Soils deposited can undergo a sudden change in the structure when they are inundated with water resulting decrease in the volume. This process is known as water induced compaction. The decrease in volume occurs without any change in external loads and is only caused by the water, which results in the settlement of soil surface having a resultant potential to damage the structures. The water induced compaction process is characterized by sudden change in the voids or pores of the soil that are loaded at their natural water content and flooded. The objective of this thesis work was to understand the water induced consolidation process at agriculturally used reclaimed soils. The approach was to reproduce the situation occurring when the soil was subjected to water induced compaction at defined loads typical in the top soil (0 kPa to 20 kPa). The glacial till used for the experiments was sampled in the Lusatian lignite-mining district located about 100 km southeast of Berlin, Germany. Sediment samples for different investigations were taken from the pre-cut section at 1500 m west of the eastern end from 3 m depth till 10 m depth. The glacial till used for the experiments derived from the sediment layer of Warthe sub-stage of the saalian glaciation. To characterize the soil properties at the pre-cut section, parameters like grain size distribution, soil bulk density, calcium carbonate content (CaCo3) and water retention characteristics were measured. The stability of the glacial till was evaluated using parameter pre-consolidation load. This was done in three sub-steps. The first step was determination of the stress-strain behaviour under natural conditions. In the second step the stress-strain behaviour of disturbed dry samples was simulated, which would be the situation in summer when the glacial till dries during transport. In the third step we saturated the disturbed dry samples which were subjected to different preloads to simulate the effect of saturation and re-compaction by precipitation. This work was exemplarily done for undisturbed samples and also for disturbed dry samples from 4 depths (4 m, 6 m, 8 m, and 10 m). Disturbed dry and saturated conditions were tested for samples from depths 4 m and 8 m. i) It was found from the grain size distribution that the soil profile is uniformly distributed with different particle sizes. High soil bulk density was recorded, which were in the range of 1.9 g cm-3 to 2.0 g cm-3. We observed that the carbonate content increased with the depths, in our observation it increased up to 5.4 %. From the water retention characteristics we observe that the samples from 4 m and 10 m depth do not have coarse pores where as 6 m and 8 m depth samples have coarse pores. ii) We observed that the undisturbed samples showed a flat curve having the initial void ratio and final void ratio values within a small range (between 0.2 and 0.4), where as the disturbed dry and the disturbed saturated curves showed a huge difference in the initial and final void ratio values. The difference was decreasing with the increase in pre-loads. We found that pre-consolidation stress values obtained were not increasing with the increase in depth. The disturbed saturated samples from the 4 m depth showed over-estimation of the results, where as the disturbed saturated samples from 8 m appeared to be realistic. We found that the magnitude of water induced compaction increased with the increase in preloads and a decrease with respect to the depths
Bei der Behandlung saurer Grubenwässer fallen in den Grubenwasserreinigungsanlagen des Lausitzer Braunkohlereviers jährlich rund 13 Mio. m³ Schlamm an. Dabei handelt es sich überwiegend um carbonathaltige Eisenhydroxidschlämme. Die Schlämme werden in Tagebauseen, spezielle Absetzbecken oder in ausgekohlte Tagebaubereiche eingeleitet. Der Umgang mit diesen Dünnschlämmen setzt Kenntnisse ihres Umweltverhaltens voraus. Zur Charakterisierung ihrer Eigenschaften wurde mit dem Schlamm-Modell ein komplexes Instrumentarium entwickelt. Das physikalische, das mineralogische und das chemische Teilmodell beinhalten jeweils allgemeine Modellvorstellungen, Aussagen zur Untersuchungsmethodik sowie eine entsprechende Charakterisierung der Schlämme aus dem Lausitzer Braunkohlerevier. Im Rahmen der Arbeit wurden Frisch- und Altschlämme aus 6 Grubenwasserreinigungsanlagen, ein synthetisch erzeugter Schlamm, ein Schwertmannitschlamm sowie die Flockungsmittel Weißfeinkalk und Weißkalkhydrat untersucht. Neben physikalischen und chemischen Analysen sowie Säuretitrationen und pH-stat-Versuchen wurden phasenanalytische Untersuchungen (Röntgendiffraktometrie, Transmissions- und Rasterelektronenmikroskopie, energiedispersive Röntgenmikroanalyse, Thermogravimetrie) durchgeführt. Auf Grundlage der Untersuchunsgergebnisse wurden ein Klassifizierungs- und ein Untersuchungsschema für die Schlämme aus den Lausitzer Grubenwasserreinigungsanlagen abgeleitet.