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DOE pollution prevention in the 21st century. Proceedings

Description: This CD-ROM contains the proceedings from the DOE Pollution Prevention in the 21st Century Conference XII held July 9-11, 1996. Topics included model facilities, federal and NEPA stakeholders, microchemistry, source 4 solvents and reduction, education and outreach planning, return on investment, energy management, decontamination and decommissioning, planning and regulations, environmental restoration, solid waste, recycling, affirmative procurement in the executive branch, construction and dem… more
Date: December 31, 1996
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Waste minimization plan construction and operation of the replacement cross-site transfer system, project W-058

Description: This report addresses the research and development of a waste minimization plan for the construction and operation of Project W-058, Replacement of the Cross-Site Transfer System, on the Hanford Site. The plan is based on Washington Administrative Code (WAC) 173-307, Plans. The waste minimization plan identifies areas where pollution prevention/waste minimization principles can be incorporated into the construction and operation of the cross-site transfer system.
Date: April 1, 1996
Creator: Boucher, T.D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Selected papers for global `95 concerning plutonium

Description: This report contains selected papers from the Global `95 Conference ``Evaluation of Emerging Nuclear Fuel Cycle Systems,`` held in Versailles, Sept. 11-14, 1995. The 11 papers in Part I are from ``Benefits and Risks of Reprocessing`` sessions. The 7 papers in Part II are some of the more interesting poster papers that relate to the use of Pu for power generation. Finally, the 3 papers are on the topic of management and disposition of Pu from retired nuclear weapons.
Date: June 14, 1996
Creator: Sutcliffe, W. G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Principles of As-Built Engineering

Description: As-Built Engineering is a product realization methodology founded on the notion that life-cycle engineering should be based on what is actually produced and not on what is nominally designed. As-Built Engineering is a way of thinking about the production realization process that enables customization in mass production environments. It questions the relevance of nominal based methods of engineering and the role that tolerancing plays in product realization. As-Built Engineering recognizes that … more
Date: November 1, 1996
Creator: Dolin, R. M. & Hefele, J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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DOE pollution prevention in the 21st century

Description: This document presents abstracts of the topics covered in the DOE Pollution Prevention in the 21st Century conference held July 9-11, 1996. These topics include: model facilities; Federal/NEPA/stake- holders; microchemistry; solvents and reduction; education and outreach; return on investments; energy management; decontamination and decommissioning; planning and regulations; environmental restoration; recycling; affirmative procurement in the executive branch; construction and demolition; mater… more
Date: October 1, 1996
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Using life-cycle analysis to estimate economic performance

Description: One of the principal tools of industrial ecology is life-cycle assessment which intends to improve overall economic efficiency and to minimize negative environmental impacts of products, processes, and facilities. This paper describes a general methodology for environmentally responsible assessment of these activities; it discusses some of the underlying considerations for this assessment which are accessible by rigorous quantitative analysis; and an overall economic performance metric is propo… more
Date: March 28, 1996
Creator: Allenby, B.R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Pollution Prevention Opportunity Assessment for Landscape Waste

Description: DOE orders mandate the development of a waste minimization program. The program`s goals are to: reduce volumes of wastes and toxicity; implement a system of tracking and reporting improvements; and devise a method for performing tasks. To satisfy the requirements of this program, Sandia conducts pollution prevention opportunity assessments (PPOAs) to identify waste-generating processes. The information collected from a PPOA then is used to identify waste minimization opportunities. This polluti… more
Date: August 1, 1996
Creator: Phillips, N.M. & Raubfogel, S.J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Catalytic multi-stage liquefaction (CMSL). Final report

Description: The 17-day bench run CMSL-6 (227-83), on Black Thunder Mine subbituminous coal and with an approximate space velocity of 481 kg/hr/m{sup 3} (30 lb/hr/ft{sup 3}), tested the performance of a dispersed slurry catalyst in powdered form added to the first stage thermal reactor. This catalyst, based on molybdenum-containing sulfated iron oxide prepared at HTI, had about 15% moisture, 43% Fe and 7% Mo with a BET surface area of about 40 m{sup 2}/g. The second stage reactor had a partially deactivated… more
Date: November 1, 1996
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Development of asphalts and pavements using recycled tire rubber. Phase 1, Technical feasibility. Technical progress report, September 1, 1994--August 31, 1995

Description: About 285 million tires are discarded every year; less than 100 million are currently being recycled, with the rest being placed in landfills and other waste sites. A solution to reduce the littering of the environment is to use ground tire rubber in road construction. Currently, about 27 million tons of asphalt are used each year in road construction and maintenance of the country`s 2 million miles of roads. If all of the waste tire rubber could be combined with asphalt in road construction, i… more
Date: June 1, 1996
Creator: Bullin, Jerry A.; Davison, Richard R.; Glover, Charles J.; Estakhri, Cindy; Flumerfelt, Raymond W.; Billiter, Travis et al.
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PCB regulations and their application to deactivation and decommissioning activities: Technical assistance project

Description: DOE`s economic development plans involve efforts to deactivate and decommission or refurbish site buildings and operational facilities for other uses. Site personnel must decide on disposition of stored materials, which include increasing numbers of excess and/or unwanted oil-filled equipment (e.g., transformers, hydraulic systems, heat transfer systems) and oil-containing `orphaned` drums. Because oil and these items can also contain polychlorinated biphenyls, it is essential that site personn… more
Date: April 1, 1996
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Environmental, health and safety issues related to commercializing CuInSe{sub 2}-based photovoltaics

Description: Photovoltaics technology is rapidly evolving towards a new generation of low-cost thin film technologies. One of the most promising materials in this new generation is copper indium selenide (CuInSe{sub 2} or CIS). As with any new material, successful commercialization of CIS photovoltaic (PV) technology will require attention to environmental, health and safety issues, including consideration of the sources, usage, and end-of-product-life disposal and/or recycling of the constituent materials.… more
Date: July 1, 1996
Creator: Eberspacher, C.; Fthenakis, V. M. & Moskowtiz, P. D.
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LLWnotes - Volume 11, Number 7, October/November 1996

Description: This document is the October/November 1996 issue of LLWnotes. It contains articles and news items on the following topics: Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission (TNRCC) declines Envirocare`s low-level radioactive waste (LLW) license application; implications of the TNRCC letter for other facilities in Texas; meeting of the Host State Technical Coordinating committee in Kentucky; scheduling of Nebraska`s license review; Southeast Compact grants funds for North Carolina project; court ne… more
Date: November 1, 1996
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Surveillance and maintenance report on decontamination and decommissioning and remedial action activities at the Oak Ridge Y-12 plant, Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Fiscal year 1996

Description: The Oak Ridge Y-12 Plant Decontamination and Decommissioning (D&D) and Remedial Action (RA) programs are part of the Environmental Restoration (ER) Division and are funded by the Office of Environmental Management (EM-40). Building 9201-4 (known as Alpha-4), three sites located within Building 9201-3 (the Oil Storage Tank, the Molten Salt Reactor Experiment Fuel Handling Facility, and the Coolant Salt Technology Facility), and Building 9419-1 (the Decontamination Facility) are currently the fac… more
Date: December 1996
Creator: King, H. L.; Sollenberger, M. L.; Sparkman, D. E.; Reynolds, R. M. & Wayland, G.S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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1995 Annual report on waste generation and waste mainization progress as required by DOE order 5400.1, Hanford site

Description: While waste generation numbers are important, the true measure of success is waste minimized. Many Waste Minimization/Pollution Prevention (WMin/P2) successes at the Hanford Site occur every day without formal recognition as pollution prevention, as they have become part of a culture of best management practices. As an example, the success of the excess and reuse program, both informal and formal, documents the Wmin/P2 culture that exists in the pollution prevention representatives and employee… more
Date: September 24, 1996
Creator: Betsch, M. D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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A study of NO{sub x} reduction by fuel injection recirculation. Final report, January 1995--June 1996

Description: Flue-gas recirculation (FGR) is a well-known method used to control oxides of nitrogen (NO{sub x}) in industrial burner applications. Recent small- and large-scale experiments in natural-gas fired boilers have shown that introducing the recirculated flue gases with the fuel results in a much greater reduction in NO{sub x}, per unit mass of gas recirculated, in comparison to introducing the flue gases with the combustion air. That fuel injection recirculation (FIR) is more effective than windbox… more
Date: August 1, 1996
Creator: Feese, James J. & Turns, Stephen R.
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The industrial ecology of asset management: A case study

Description: Closure of materials cycles (one key goal in industrial ecology) to produces environmental and economic benefits. An interdisciplinary team of scientists and engineers at ORNL developed a life-cycle approach to examine the environmental and economic aspects of using purchased metal boxes for disposal of low-level radioactive waste vs a proposed process of fabricating boxes from metal already contaminated and destined for disposal as LLRW. This proposal would plug a leak in the steel materials c… more
Date: September 1, 1996
Creator: Hunsaker, D. B., Jr.; Curlee, T. R.; Ensminger, J. T.; Rivera, R. G. & Yuracko, K. L.
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Separation of Fischer-Tropsch wax from catalyst using supercritical fluid extraction. Quarterly technical progress report, April 1, 1996--June 30, 1996

Description: The objective of this research project is to evaluate the potential of SCF extraction for separating the catalyst slurry of a Fischer- Tropsch (F-T) slurry bubble column (SBC) reactor into two fractions: (1) a catalyst-free wax containing less than 10 ppm particulate matter and (2) a concentrated catalyst slurry that is ready for recycle or regeneration. The wax will be extracted with a hydrocarbon solvent that has a critical temperature near the operating temperature of the SBC reactor, i.e., … more
Date: November 1, 1996
Creator: Joyce, P.C. & Thies, M.C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Structural Insulated Panels Produced from Recycled Expanded-Polystrene (EPS) Foam Scrap. Final Report

Description: This report documents a research project undertaken to assess the feasibility of using scrap reground expanded polystyrene (EPS) in the manufacture of structural insulated panels (SIPs) in order to save material costs and reduce the amount of EPS waste products to be disposed. The project team, managed by Steven Winter Associates, Inc., a Norwalk, Connecticut-based building systems research and consulting firm included: Thermal Foams, Inc., a Buffalo-based manufacturer of EPS products; BASF Cor… more
Date: November 1, 1996
Creator: Grinnell, A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Assessment of risks and costs associated with transportation of US Department of Energy radioactively contaminated carbon steel

Description: This report provides a preliminary assessment of potential human health risks and develops unit risks and costs for transporting radioactively contaminated carbon steel (RCCS) scrap between U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) sites. The RCCS would be generated from DOE activities (current or future) and from decontamination and decommissioning of DOE facilities. The estimates of transportation system risk reflect preliminary information regarding the quantities of RCCS at some sites and the spectru… more
Date: September 1996
Creator: Chen, S. Y.; Arnish, J. J.; Nieves, L. A. & Folga, S. M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Hanford recycling

Description: This paper is a study of the past and present recycling efforts on the Hanford site and options for future improvements in the recycling program. Until 1996, recycling goals were voluntarily set by the waste generators: this year, DOE has imposed goals for all its sites to accomplish by 1999. Hanford is presently meeting the voluntary site goals, but may not be able to meet all the new DOE goals without changes to the program. Most of these new DOE goals are recycling goals: * Reduce the genera… more
Date: September 1, 1996
Creator: Leonard, I.M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Separation of Fischer-Tropsch wax from catalyst by supercritical extraction. Quarterly report, July 1, 1996 - September 30, 1996

Description: The objective of this research projects is to evaluate the potential of SCF extraction for separating the catalyst slurry of a Fischer- Tropsch (F-T) slurry bubble column (SBC) reactor into two fractions: (1) a catalyst-free wax containing less than 10 ppm particulate matter and (2) a concentrated catalyst slurry that is ready for recycle or regeneration. The wax will be extracted with a hydrocarbon solvent that has a critical temperature near the operating temperature of the SBC reactor, i.e. … more
Date: December 31, 1996
Creator: Joyce, P. C.; Thies, M. C.; Sherrard, D.; Biales, J.; Kilpatrick, P. & Roberts, G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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LLNL metal finishing and pollution prevention activities with small businesses

Description: The Metal Finishing Facility at LLNL has emphasized using environmentally conscious manufacturing principles. Key focus items included minimizing hazardous wastes, minimization of water usage, material and process substitutions, and recycling. Joint efforts with NCAMF (Northern California Association of Metal Finishers), Technic, Inc., EPA, and UC Davis, all directed at pollution prevention, are reviewed.
Date: July 1, 1996
Creator: Dini, J. W. & Steffani, C. P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Impact and structural analysis of the INEL 55 gallon recycled shielded storage container

Description: The INEL Recycled Shielded Storage Containers (RSSC) are designed primarily for the transportation and storage of mixed RH-TRU solid waste using recycled, potentially contaminated lead and stainless steel construction materials. Two versions of the RSSC have been developed accommodating either 30 or 55 gallon drums. This report addresses the structural qualification of the 55 gallon version of the RSSC to DOT 7A Type A requirements. The controlling qualification test is a 4 ft drop onto a rigid… more
Date: July 1, 1996
Creator: Richins, W.D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Wastewater recycling and heat reclamation at the Red Lion Central Laundry, Portland, Oregon

Description: This report discusses water, energy, and cost savings that can be achieved in a commercial laundry through the use of a wastewater recycling and heat recovery system. Cost savings are achieved through reductions in water use, reduction in sewage charges, reductions in water heating energy, and potential reductions in water treatment chemicals. This report provides an economic analysis of the impact of capital investment, daily consumption, and local utility rates on the payback period.
Date: September 1, 1996
Creator: Garlick, T.F.; Halverson, M.A. & Ledbetter, M.R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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