Modeling and environmental risk assessment of Eastern Alborz Coal washing plant

Subject Areas : Mineralogy

Reza Ghaedrahmati ¹ , Hayati Hayati ² , Asghar Azizi ³

1 - Department of Mining, Faculty of Engineering, Lorestan University, Khorramabad, Iran.
2 - Department of Mining, Faculty of Engineering, Lorestan University, Khorramabad, Iran.
3 - Faculty of Mining, Petroleum and Geophysics, Shahrood University of Technology, Shahrood, Iran.

Received: 2017-05-29 Accepted : 2017-12-02 Published : 2018-10-01

Keywords: Coal washing plant, Risk Assessment, Linear Assessment, Modeling, Environmental factors,

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