Interactions mechanisms in natural-technical geosystems “industrial facility – environment”

With the development of the mining industry and growing fuel consumption in the Arctic north of Yakutia, which boasts significant mineral reserves, increasing environmental requirements for mining companies and finding a balance between economics and environmental conservation are increasingly important. Furthermore, given the trend of global warming in Russia’s permafrost zone, measures aimed at studying and developing geotechnical monitoring systems at industrial and civil facilities in permafrost areas are particularly important. It is worth noting that petroleum products in Arctic regions are stored in tank farms constructed on ground foundations. Therefore, studying these issues by subsoil users is important to ensure sustainable socio-economic and infrastructural development of the territory in accordance with industrial and environmental safety requirements.

This article presents methods for using natural sciences in research in the field of environmental engineering and the rational resources.

Fundamental theoretical research is often based on an indirect, conceptual study of processes and phenomena (interconnected natural and technical geosystems). However, practical interaction with the objects being directly studied (industrial infrastructure facilities) may be absent.

Based on analyses of theoretical methods, general principles of environmental engineering aimed at minimizing integral losses of inanimate and animate nature were established and identified. New, previously unknown or unsolved problems of significant practical significance were posed. A qualitative and quantitative assessment of previously obtained precedents in methodological areas of the problems under study was conducted. A fundamentally new system for understanding the phenomena, mechanisms, and processes of environmentally sound nature management in industrially developed areas was developed.

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