AMDTreat

AMDTreat was developed cooperatively by OSMRE, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (PADEP), U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), and the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection (WVDEP).

The software application is a member of OSMRE's Technical Innovation and Professional Services (TIPS) suite of software.

AMDTreat 6.0 Beta can assist a user in estimating costs and sizing facilities to abate water pollution, using passive or chemical treatment technologies. Treatment systems, vertical flow ponds, anoxic limestone drains, anaerobic wetlands, bioreactors, caustic soda, hydrated lime, pebble quicklime, soda ash treatment and other systems can be evaluated.

The software provides over 400 user modifiable variables for excavation, construction, revegetation, piping, road construction, land acquisition, system maintenance, labor, water sampling, design, surveying, pumping, sludge removal, chemical consumption, and other functions. The default cost data can be modified to adjust for inflation or site specific requirements.

AMDTreat also contains several financial and scientific tools to help select and plan treatment systems. These tools include a long-term financial forecasting module, an acidity calculator, a sulfate reduction calculator, a Langelier saturation index calculator, a mass-balance calculator, and iron oxidation tools.

• Comprehensive suite of solutions for estimating the size and cost of treatment systems
• Financial Forecasting tools to aid in calculating and evaluating long-term treatment costs
• Solutions available for various treatment scenarios including:
  • Limestone-based Passive Systems, Alkaline Neutralization Active Treatment Systems, and Oxidation Active Treatment Systems - Provides the ability to compare different treatment systems
• Perform forward cost modeling (treatment system needs constructed)
• Performs reverse cost modeling (treatment system is constructed

Development Team Members (AMDTreat Version 6.0 Beta)

Help files are available as PDFs and appear in the order of use within the latest version of AMDTreat. 

Anoxic Limestone Drain

Bioreactor

Limestone Bed

Manganese Removal Bed

Vertical Flow Pond

Wetland

Caustic Soda

Lime Products

Hydrogen Peroxide

Pre-Manufactured Hydrated Lime Slurry

Permanganate

Polymer

Soda Ash

Clarifier

Conveyance Ditch

Decarbonation

Ponds

Pumping

Reaction Tank

Sampling

Labor

Payout Schedule

All of the Tutorial Videos are linked from OSMRE's YouTube Channel.

Getting Started

This tutorial demonstrates the functionality and use of the new AMDTreat software.

Active Treatment Tutorials

The tutorials below demonstrate the functionality and use of the new AMDTreat 6.0 software by developing an example active treatment system.

Introduction

Pumping

Lime Slurry

Reaction Tank

Ponds

Passive Treatment Tutorials

The tutorials demonstrate the functionality and use of the new AMDTreat 6.0 software by developing an example passive treatment system. 

Introduction

Limestone Bed

Ponds

Wetlands

What is AMDTreat?

AMDTreat is a tool to assist users in the process of estimating the long-term cost of abatement of pollutional mine drainage discharges.

AMDTreat provides a detailed framework for calculating real-world site-specific treatment cost estimates.

AMDTreat users can model costs both forward (In advance of construction.) and reverse. (Determining the cost of a previously constructed system.)

AMDTreat is a powerful what-if modeling tool to help in determining the most cost effective long-term treatment type for a given discharge.

AMDTreat is a flexible tool for estimating costs where the user has full control over how and what elements are considered.

AMDTreat is not a design tool, it is a cost modeling tool.