TY - JOUR
T1 - Characterization of coal particles in the soil of a former rail yard and urban brownfield
T2 - Liberty State Park, Jersey City (NJ), USA
AU - Hagmann, Diane F.
AU - Kruge, Michael A.
AU - Goodey, Nina M.
AU - Krumins, Jennifer Adams
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2020/1/2
Y1 - 2020/1/2
N2 - From the 1850's until the 1960's, the Central Railroad of New Jersey was among several major railways shipping anthracite and bituminous coal to the New York City area, transferring coal from railcar to barge at its extensive rail yard and port facility in Jersey City. The 490 ha Liberty State Park was developed on the site after the rail yard closed, but a ca. 100 ha brownfield zone within the park remains off limits to visitors pending future remediation. As part of an environmental forensic and industrial archeological investigation of this zone, the present study characterizes anthracite and bituminous coal particles present in abundance in the soil by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and pyrolysis-gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (Py-GC–MS). A simple pretreatment procedure employing density separation improved the analytical results. This detailed information about the nature of contaminants at the site will help to inform the remediation effort in the public interest.
AB - From the 1850's until the 1960's, the Central Railroad of New Jersey was among several major railways shipping anthracite and bituminous coal to the New York City area, transferring coal from railcar to barge at its extensive rail yard and port facility in Jersey City. The 490 ha Liberty State Park was developed on the site after the rail yard closed, but a ca. 100 ha brownfield zone within the park remains off limits to visitors pending future remediation. As part of an environmental forensic and industrial archeological investigation of this zone, the present study characterizes anthracite and bituminous coal particles present in abundance in the soil by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and pyrolysis-gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (Py-GC–MS). A simple pretreatment procedure employing density separation improved the analytical results. This detailed information about the nature of contaminants at the site will help to inform the remediation effort in the public interest.
KW - Brownfield remediation
KW - Coal
KW - Density separation
KW - Environmental forensics
KW - Liberty State Park
KW - Pyrolysis-gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (Py-GC–MS)
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85074952164&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.coal.2019.103328
DO - 10.1016/j.coal.2019.103328
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85074952164
SN - 0166-5162
VL - 217
JO - International Journal of Coal Geology
JF - International Journal of Coal Geology
M1 - 103328
ER -