Abstract Technological and economic development have influenced the amount of post-production waste. Post-industrial waste, generated in the most considerable amount, includes, among others, waste related to the mining, metallurgical, and energy industries. Various non-hazardous or hazardous wastes can be used to produce new construction materials after the “solidification/stabilization” processes. They can be used as admixtures […]
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Multiple People Taken To Hospital For Hydrofluoric Acid Exposure At Cleveland Cliffs
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Note from Fluoride Action Network: Cleveland-Cliffs Inc., formerly Cliffs Natural Resources, is a Cleveland, Ohio-based company that specializes in the mining, beneficiation, and pelletizing of iron ore, as well as steelmaking, including stamping and tooling. Wikipedia Multiple people were taken to the hospital this morning after they were exposed to hydrofluoric acid at Cleveland Cliffs. […]
Hyundai to use Samsung sludge to make steel
Workers pose for a photo with recycled material from semiconductor wastewater sludge. (Yonhap) Samsung Electronics and Hyundai Steel announced Monday that they had developed a new wastewater recycling technology that would allow sludge from the chip manufacturing process to be reused for steelmaking. Their joint research found that calcium fluoride in the sludge was similar […]
Effects of fluoride content on structure and properties of steel slag glass-ceramics
Highlights Fluoride affected the type of crystal phase and crystallization process. Fluoride contributed to the formation of the Si–O bridge oxygen bonds. Fluoride had abnormal effect in high alkalinity glass. The glass-ceramics with flexural strength of 177.76 MPa can be obtained. Abstract The hot steel slag were utilized for preparing the glass-ceramics by melting method […]
Landmark case exposes ArcelorMittal SA pollution
JOHANNESBURG – In 1994 a number of people bought property in a farmland area of the Vaal known as Louisrus and Steel Valley, in the south of Johannesburg.They bought property close to the Iscor steel plant, which has now become part of ArcelorMittal South Africa (Amsa). Two years later residents noticed oil in their borehole […]
Permit Hearing for U.S. Steel in Gary, Indiana
Environment officials are in the final stages of issuing a new permit to U.S. Steel in Gary, Indiana. The permit limits the amount of polluted water the company can discharge into Lake Michigan. By all measures, this proposed permit is much more stringent on U.S. Steel than in the past. The Federal Environmental Protection Agency […]
Pennsylvania: DEP investigating chemical cloud at Allegheny Ludlum plant
The state Department of Environmental Protection is investigating an accident Monday afternoon at the Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corp. in Washington County that resulted in the release of a yellow, toxic chemical cloud outside the plant. The DEP said that an overhead crane malfunctioned and could not remove a stainless steel plate from a 10,000-gallon vat […]
Donora: Comments by Dr. Devra Lee Davis
When Dr. Devra Lee Davis was visiting a “green” community in China during a trip for the United Nations, she couldn’t help but think of her hometown of Donora. Early one morning, she awoke to an explosion and then looked outside to see flames, tar and smoke spewing from a plant. Through her window, a […]
Donora: The 1948 poisonous smog that killed 20 led to creation of the Clean Air Act
John R. West hadn’t missed a day of work for two years before he walked through his front door one Friday from his job at a local coal mine and said he just didn’t feel well. He told his wife he had chest and head pain, and worse, he couldn’t breathe. West, 56, wanted to […]
Donora: ‘THE TRUTH WAS CONCEALED’
DONORA – The day after a deadly smog cleared over Donora, the local newspaper lobbied for a full investigation into the poisonous air that had just killed 20 people. “This pledge must be kept until it is redeemed by a true bill of health which Donora must now earn out of its tragedy,” The Herald-American’s […]