Engineering-scale demonstration of thermal desorption technology for manufactured gas plant site soils

Technical Report · Wed Nov 01 00:00:00 EST 1989

OSTI ID:7054533

Helsel, R; Alperin, E; Groen, A

As part of a program to evaluate and develop technologies that are applicable for remediation of contaminated soils at manufactured gas plant (MGP) sites, pilot plant tests of a thermal desorption treatment technology were performed. Coal-tar-contaminated soil samples from three MGP sites were characterized, and bench-scale treatability tests were performed to establish treatment conditions to use for the pilot tests. Residual concentrations of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) were analyzed for all treated soil samples to determine treatment performance of the bench-scale and pilot plant test systems. Temperature, residence time, and soil type all had a significant effect on treatment efficiency. Reasonable agreement was found among results from the static, batch, bench-scale test apparatus and the dynamic, continuous pilot plant. The report presents the test results and describes the experimental procedures.

• Research Organization: IT Corp., Knoxville, TN (USA)
• OSTI ID: 7054533
• Report Number(s): PB-90-160714/XAB
• Resource Relation: Other Information: Portions of this document are not fully legible
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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01 COAL, LIGNITE, AND PEAT
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
COAL TAR
ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS
POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS
ECOLOGICAL CONCENTRATION
SOILS
DECONTAMINATION
BENCH-SCALE EXPERIMENTS
CHEMICAL ANALYSIS
DESORPTION
HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
LAND POLLUTION
PERFORMANCE
PILOT PLANTS
REMEDIAL ACTION
SAMPLE PREPARATION
SITE SURVEYS
WASTE DISPOSAL
AROMATICS
CLEANING
FUNCTIONAL MODELS
HYDROCARBONS
MANAGEMENT
MATERIALS
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
OTHER ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
POLLUTION
TAR
WASTE MANAGEMENT
WASTES
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