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Deep-Well Injection for Waste Management

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Advanced Biological Treatment Processes

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Man-made or produced fluids (liquids, gases or slurries) can move into the pores of rocks by the use of pumps or by gravity. Injection well technology can predict the capacity of rocks to contain fluids and the technical details to do so safely. Underground wastewater disposal and storage by well injection is being used by both industries and municipalities to help solve environmental problems. When wells are properly sited, constructed, and operated, underground injection is an effective and environmentally safe method to dispose of wastes. Issues discussed in this chapter include regulations for managing injection wells, basic well designs, evaluation of a proposed injection well site, ways to prevent, detect, and correct potential hazards, economic evaluation of a proposed injection well system, use of injection wells for wastewater management, use of injection wells for hazardous wastes management, protection of usable aquifers, case studies of deep well injection, and practical examples.

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Shammas, N.K., Sever, C.W., Wang, L.K. (2009). Deep-Well Injection for Waste Management. In: Wang, L.K., Shammas, N.K., Hung, YT. (eds) Advanced Biological Treatment Processes. Handbook of Environmental Engineering, vol 9. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-60327-170-7_14

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