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Title: REMOVAL OF MERCURY FROM CONTAMINATED SOILS AT THE PAVLODAR CHEMICAL PLANT.

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OSTI ID:15016071

Soils beneath and adjacent to the Pavlodar Chemical Plant in Kazakhstan have been contaminated with elemental mercury as a result of chlor alkali processing using mercury cathode cell technology. The work described in this paper was conducted in preparation for a demonstration of a technology to remove the mercury from the contaminated soils using a vacuum assisted thermal distillation process. The process can operate at temperatures from 250-500 C and pressures of 0.13kPa-1.33kPa. Following vaporization, the mercury vapor is cooled, condensed and concentrated back to liquid elemental mercury. It will then be treated using the Sulfur Polymer Stabilization/Solidification process developed at Brookhaven National Laboratory as described in a companion paper at this conference. The overall project objectives include chemical and physical characterization of the contaminated soils, study of the influence of the soil's physical-chemical and hydro dynamical characteristics on process parameters, and laboratory testing to optimize the mercury sublimation rate when heating in vacuum. Based on these laboratory and pilot-scale data, a full-scale production process will be designed for testing. This paper describes the soil characterization. This work is being sponsored by the International Science and Technology Center.

Research Organization:
BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY (US)
Sponsoring Organization:
DOE/NNSA (US)
DOE Contract Number:
AC02-98CH10886
OSTI ID:
15016071
Report Number(s):
BNL-73893-2005-CP; R&D Project: 13773; KP1301020; TRN: US200509%%839
Resource Relation:
Conference: REWAS'2004 GLOBAL SYMPOSIUM ON RECYCLING, WASTE TREATMENT AND CLEAN TECHNOLOGY (REWAS), MADRID (ES), 09/2004; Other Information: PBD: 25 Sep 2004
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English