IEC 116 |
| Mark J. Barnes1, Charles L. Crawford1, Daniel P. Lambert1, Fernando F. Fondeur1, Paul Burkett1, James E. Laurinat1, Thomas B. Edwards1, James C. Marra1, Daniel I Kaplan1, Reid A. Peterson2, and David J. Sherwood2. (1) Savannah River Technology Center, Westinghouse Savannah River Company, Aiken, SC 29808, (2) Washington Group International, Richland, WA 99352 |
| The Department of Energy’s Office of River Protection Hanford Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant is currently under construction. It will consist of three primary facilities: a Pretreatment Facility and two facilities for low-activity and high-activity vitrification. The Pre-treatment Facility contains unit operations for receiving waste feed from the Hanford Tank Farms and separating it into two treated waste streams: low-activity liquid waste and high-level waste slurry. Unit operations within the Pretreatment Facility will produce multiple recycle streams that are blended back into the received waste stream for processing. This paper describes work that personnel at the Savannah River Technology Center conducted in small-scale tests to determine the behavior associated with blending of recycle streams within the Pretreatment Facility for the Hanford Waste Treatment Plant. Tests investigated the formation of precipitates, changes in viscosity, or changes in other solution properties. |
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Advanced Technologies for Decontaminating and Managing Radioactive Wastes
1:00 PM-5:00 PM, Tuesday, March 25, 2003 Convention Center -- Room 394, Oral
Division of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry |