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Principal Scientific Investigator

Name Gerald Ziegenbalg
Address Institut f. Technische Chemie, TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Leipziger Str. 29, D-09596 Freiberg
Telephone +49-3731-39-4374
Fax +49-3731-39-2324
e-mail ziegenb@server.compch.tu-freiberg.de
Training
1990 TU Bergakademie, Freiberg, Gemany PhD
1998 TU Bergakademie, Freiberg, Gemany Habilitation
Professional Experience
1991 - to date TU Bergakademie, Freiberg, Gemany Development of technologies to seal soil formations and to prevent water inflows into mines
1993 - to date TU Bergakademie, Freiberg, Gemany Development of technologies to immobilise contaminants in uranium mines and tailings by directed crystallisation and precipitation processes;
Project leader in several large scale field tests
since 1998 TU Bergakademie, Freiberg, Gemany Lecturer in inorganic technical chemistry
Publications
ZIEGENBALG, G., HOLLDORF, H., "Estimation of the solid-liquid-phase equilibria of the quinary system Na+ , K+, Mg2+/Cl-, SO42-//H2O and the hexary system Na+ , K+, Mg2+, Ca2+/Cl-, SO42-//H2O in a temperature range below 140°C", Seventh Symposium on Salt, Vol. I, Elsevier Science Publishers B.V., Amsterdam (1993) 549-553.
ZIEGENBALG, G., "Alternatives in sealing off porous rock formations by directed and controlled crystalli-zation of slightly soluble minerals", In: Papers of the 1995 Meeting of the Solution Mining Research Institute, San Antonio, USA (1995)
ZIEGENBALG, G. CROSBY, K.S., "A review of a pilot test to reduce brine inflows with controlled crystallization of gypsum at the IMC K2 brine inflow", Mineral Resources Eng., 6 (4) (1997) 173-184
ZIEGENBALG, G.; SCHREYER J., "In-situ Fixierung von Schadstoffen in Sandsteinen der Lagerstätte Königstein", in: Proceedings 7. Workshop der Wismut GmbH, Chemnitz, September (1997)
ZIEGENBALG, G., HOLLDORF, H., "The directed and controlled crystallization of naturally occurring minerals - a new process to seal porous rock formations and to immobilize contaminants", IAH Symposium"Aquifer Management and Remediation", Quebec (1998)
ZIEGENBALG, G., "Zur Anwendung von Kristallisationsprozessen für die Lösung von geotechnischen Aufgaben und zur Schadstoffimmobilisierung in Gesteinen", In: Beiträge zur Kristallisation anorganischer Stoffe aus Lösungen, Freiberger Forschungsh. A 853 (1999) 162-178
ZIEGENBALG, G., "In-situ remediation of heavy metal contaminated soil or rock formations and sealing of water inflows by directed and controlled crystallization of natural occurring minerals", in: R.F. Rubio [Ed.] Mine, Water & Environment, International Congress, Sevilla, Spain (1999) 667-672.

 
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