Mixed Waste Focus Area alternative oxidation technologies development and demonstration program Metadata

Title

• Main Title Mixed Waste Focus Area alternative oxidation technologies development and demonstration program

Creator

• Author: Borduin, L.C.
  Creator Type: Personal
  Creator Info: Los Alamos National Lab., NM (United States)
• Author: Fewell, T.
  Creator Type: Personal
• Author: Gombert, D.
  Creator Type: Personal
• Author: Priebe, S.
  Creator Type: Personal
  Creator Info: Lockheed Martin Idaho Technologies Co., Idaho Falls, ID (United States)

Contributor

• Sponsor: United States. Department of Energy. Office of Environmental Restoration and Waste Management.
  Contributor Type: Organization
  Contributor Info: USDOE Office of Environmental Restoration and Waste Management, Washington, DC (United States)

Publisher

• Name: Los Alamos National Laboratory
  Place of Publication: New Mexico
  Additional Info: Los Alamos National Lab., NM (United States)

Date

• Creation: 1998-07-01

Language

• English

Description

• Content Description: The Mixed Waste Focus Area (MWFA) is currently supporting the development and demonstration of several alternative oxidation technology (AOT) processes for treatment of combustible mixed low-level wastes. The impetus for this support derives from regulatory and political hurdles frequently encountered by traditional thermal techniques, primarily incinerators. AOTs have been defined as technologies that destroy organic material without using open-flame reactions. Whether thermal or nonthermal, the processes have the potential advantages of relatively low-volume gaseous emissions, generation of few or no dioxin/furan compounds, and operation at low enough temperatures that metals (except mercury) and most radionuclides are not volatilized. Technology development and demonstration are needed to confirm and realize the potential of AOTs and to compare them on an equal basis with their fully demonstrated thermal counterparts. AOTs include both thermal and nonthermal processes that oxidize organic wastes but operate under significantly different physical and chemical conditions than incinerators. Nonthermal processes currently being studied include Delphi DETOX and acid digestion at the Savannah River Site, and direct chemical oxidation at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. All three technologies are at advanced stages of development or are entering the demonstration phase. Nonflame thermal processes include catalytic chemical oxidation, which is being developed and deployed at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and team reforming, a commercial process being supported by Department of Energy. Related technologies include two low-flow, secondary oxidation processes (Phoenix and Thermatrix units) that have been tested at MSE, Inc., in Butte, Montana. Although testing is complete on some AOT technologies, most require additional support to complete some or all of the identified development objectives. Brief descriptions, status, and planned paths forward for each of the technologies are presented.
• Physical Description: 13 p.

Subject

• Keyword: Low-Level Radioactive Wastes
• Keyword: Radioactive Waste Processing
• Keyword: Organic Compounds
• Keyword: Technology Assessment
• Keyword: Oxidation
• STI Subject Categories: 05 Nuclear Fuels
• Keyword: Flowsheets
• Keyword: Hazardous Materials
• Keyword: Mixtures
• Keyword: Decomposition

Source

• Conference: Waste management `98, Tucson, AZ (United States), 1-5 Mar 1998

Collection

• Name: Office of Scientific & Technical Information Technical Reports
  Code: OSTI

Institution

• Name: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
  Code: UNTGD

Resource Type

• Article

Format

• Text

Identifier

• Other: DE98003493
• Report No.: LA-UR--98-228
• Report No.: CONF-980307--
• Grant Number: W-7405-ENG-36
• Office of Scientific & Technical Information Report Number: 663374
• Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metadc712192

Note

• Display Note: INIS; OSTI as DE98003493