
<oai_dc:dc xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/">
  <dc:source>Water Resources Management(35)</dc:source>
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  <dc:language>eng</dc:language>
  <dc:description xml:lang="eng">Abstract:
Robule Lake, located in Eastern Serbia, near the city of Bor, is being influenced by waste
materials from mining activities. For the purification of water from Robule Lake, contaminated
with various metal ions (Fe, Cu, Zn, Mn, Cd, Ni, etc.), acid mine drainage
(AMD) treatment methods such as: passive treatment method, sequential neutralization,
ion exchange, adsorption process based on low cost adsorbents, adsorption process based
on natural zeolits, electrodialysis, filtration with nanofiltration membranes, and reverse
osmosis, were evaluated by the following MCDM methods: TOPSIS, VIKOR, MOOSRA,
WASPAS, and CoCoSo. Criteria used for the evaluation were: efficiency in the metal ions
removal and the quality of the purified water, necessity of pre-treatment and / or posttreatment
of treated water, possibility of using the generated waste, capital costs, operating
and maintenance costs, needed area, and sensitivity of the method. The results of the
MCDM analysis showed that sequential neutralization was the most appropriate method
for this wastewater, while passive treatment system and ion exchange were ranked as second
and third, respectively.
After the selection of AMD treatment method, neutralization tests with lime were carried
out with the water sample from Robule Lake. The results of sequential neutralization testing
showed that concentration of Fe ions could be lowered to 1 mg/L at pH 4. The values
of Cu, Zn, and Ni ions concentration obtained at pH 7 were 0.04, 0.65, and 0.21 mg/L,
respectively, while the values of Mn and Cd ions concentration of 0.01 and 0.0001 mg/L,
were obtained at pH 10.</dc:description>
  <dc:type>info:eu-repo/semantics/article</dc:type>
  <dc:title xml:lang="eng">Comparative MCDM analysis for AMD treatment method selection</dc:title>
  <dc:date>2021</dc:date>
  <dc:subject xml:lang="eng">Keywords: MCDM · AMD · Robule Lake · Wastewater · Metal ions · Neutralization</dc:subject>
  <dc:identifier>https://unilib.phaidrabg.rs/o:300</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>doi:10.1007/s11269-021-02914-3</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>cobiss:65477129</dc:identifier>
  <dc:creator id="https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7571-2844">Štirbanović, Zoran</dc:creator>
  <dc:creator id="https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9865-3939">Gardić, Vojka</dc:creator>
  <dc:creator id="https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6846-3074">Stanujkić, Dragiša</dc:creator>
  <dc:creator id="https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2003-1141">Sokolović, Jovica</dc:creator>
  <dc:creator id="https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5317-6884">Stevanović, Zoran</dc:creator>
  <dc:creator id="https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9754-1150">Marković, Radmila</dc:creator>
  <dc:rights>All rights reserved</dc:rights>
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