Supercritical water oxidation for destruction of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
- Univ. of Akron, OH (United States)
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) represent a large class of hydrocarbons that are considered hazardous to the environment. Large amount of PAHs have been dumped onto open ground in cases such as Town gas sites. These sites represent a major environmental liability due to the difficulty in removing them by conventional methods and the large amount of sites, more than 2,000. Supercritical water oxidation offers a unique method of both removing the contaminates and destroying them in a single stage processing step. The process utilizes the single phase mixture of water and oxygen at supercritical water conditions. This allows for the PAHs to be extracted and destroyed simultaneously. The reaction produces an effluent stream rich in carbon dioxide and water. Town gas soil containing 3.37 wt% contamination was ultra-cleaned in a 1-liter pilot plant to an environmentally acceptable level of less than 200 ppm.
- OSTI ID:
- 51943
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-940930-; TRN: 95:012070
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 11. annual international Pittsburgh coal conference: coal, energy and the environment, Pittsburgh, PA (United States), 12-16 Sep 1994; Other Information: PBD: 1994; Related Information: Is Part Of Eleventh annual international Pittsburgh coal conference proceedings: Volume 2; Chiang, S.H. [ed.]; PB: 860 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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