The Fossil Fuel Combustion Waste Leaching Code -- including the GMIN chemical equilibrium model and the HELP water balance model. Volume 1: User`s guide for the FOWL-GH{trademark} code

Technical Report · Wed Dec 01 00:00:00 EST 1993

OSTI ID:10125836

Rai, D ^[1]

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1. Battelle Pacific Northwest Labs., Richland, WA (United States)

This document is a user`s manual for FOWL-GH{trademark}, the FOssil Fuel Combustion Waste Leaching Code. The necessary input data, model output, installation procedures, and example test cases for FOWL-GH{trademark} are described in this manual. FOWL-GH{trademark} predicts the chemical composition of fifteen chemical constituents (Ba, Ca, Cd, CO{sub 3}, Cr, CU, Mo, SO{sub 4}, Sr, Zn, As, B, Ni, Se, and the total dissolved solids), plus the pH (H{sup +}), as a function of time at electric utility by-product disposal sites. These sites may contain fly ash, bottom ash, or flue gas desulfurization sludges. FOWL-GH{trademark} considers both landfill and slurry-pond disposal sites. FOWL-GH{trademark} is a completely restructured and recoded version of the original FOWL{trademark} model. The major improvements in FOWL-GH{trademark} are the inclusion of a chemical equilibrium model (GMIN) to perform the geochemical calculations, a recoded version of the Hydrologic Evaluation of Landfill Performance (HELP) model for water-balance calculations at landfill sites, the capability to model slurry-pond sites, an enhanced user-oriented interface, improved mechanistic (thermodynamic) and empirical data for several elements, and the capability to model concentrations of highly soluble salts. The actual implementation of these features is described in the accompanying technical manual (Felmy et al. 1993). FOWL-GH{trademark} distributed in executable form for IBM-compatible personal computers by the Electric Power Software Center through an Electric Power Research Institute, Inc. (EPRI) license.

• Research Organization: Electric Power Research Inst., Palo Alto, CA (United States); Battelle Pacific Northwest Lab., Richland, WA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: Electric Power Research Inst., Palo Alto, CA (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC06-76RL01830
• OSTI ID: 10125836
• Report Number(s): EPRI-TR-103343-V1; ON: UN94007133; TRN: 94:002898
• Resource Relation: Other Information: PBD: Dec 1993
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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