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Modeling the Impact of Elevated Mercury in Defense Waste Processing Facility Melter Feed on the Melter Off-Gas System - Preliminary Report.


DE2009958062

Publication Date 2009
Personal Author Zamecnik, J. R.; Choi, A. S.
Page Count 58
Abstract The Defense Waste Processing Facility (DWPF) is currently evaluating an alternative Chemical Process Cell (CPC) flowsheet to increase throughput. It includes removal of the steam-stripping step, which would significantly reduce the CPC processing time and lessen the sampling needs. However, its downside would be to send 100% of the mercury that come in with the sludge straight to the melter. For example, the new mercury content in the Sludge Batch 5 (SB5) melter feed is projected to be 25 times higher than that in the SB4 with nominal steam stripping of mercury. This task was initiated to study the impact of the worst-case scenario of zero-mercury-removal in the CPC on the DWPF melter offgas system. It is stressed that this study is intended to be scoping in nature, so the results presented in this report are preliminary. In order to study the impact of elevated mercury levels in the feed, it is necessary to be able to predict how mercury would speciate in the melter exhaust under varying melter operating conditions. A homogeneous gas-phase oxidation model of mercury by chloride was developed to do just that.
Keywords
  • Radioactive waste processing
  • Mercury
  • Melters
  • Off-gas systems
  • Radioactive waste facilities
  • Sludges
  • Chloride
  • Chemical properties
  • Flowsheets
  • Oxidation
  • Exhaust systems
Source Agency
  • Technical Information Center Oak Ridge Tennessee
Corporate Authors Savannah River National Lab., Aiken, SC.; Department of Energy, Washington, DC.
Supplemental Notes Sponsored by Department of Energy, Washington, DC.
Document Type Technical Report
NTIS Issue Number 200926
Modeling the Impact of Elevated Mercury in Defense Waste Processing Facility Melter Feed on the Melter Off-Gas System - Preliminary Report.
Modeling the Impact of Elevated Mercury in Defense Waste Processing Facility Melter Feed on the Melter Off-Gas System - Preliminary Report.
DE2009958062

  • Radioactive waste processing
  • Mercury
  • Melters
  • Off-gas systems
  • Radioactive waste facilities
  • Sludges
  • Chloride
  • Chemical properties
  • Flowsheets
  • Oxidation
  • Exhaust systems
  • Technical Information Center Oak Ridge Tennessee
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