skip to main content
OSTI.GOV title logo U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information

Title: Innovative technology summary report: Transportable vitrification system

Abstract

At the end of the cold war, many of the Department of Energy`s (DOE`s) major nuclear weapons facilities refocused their efforts on finding technically sound, economic, regulatory compliant, and stakeholder acceptable treatment solutions for the legacy of mixed wastes they had produced. In particular, an advanced stabilization process that could effectively treat the large volumes of settling pond and treatment sludges was needed. Based on this need, DOE and its contractors initiated in 1993 the EM-50 sponsored development effort required to produce a deployable mixed waste vitrification system. As a consequence, the Transportable Vitrification System (TVS) effort was undertaken with the primary requirement to develop and demonstrate the technology and associated facility to effectively vitrify, for compliant disposal, the applicable mixed waste sludges and solids across the various DOE complex sites. After 4 years of development testing with both crucible and pilot-scale melters, the TVS facility was constructed by Envitco, evaluated and demonstrated with surrogates, and then successfully transported to the ORNL ETTP site and demonstrated with actual mixed wastes in the fall of 1997. This paper describes the technology, its performance, the technology applicability and alternatives, cost, regulatory and policy issues, and lessons learned.

Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Dept. of Energy, Office of Environmental Management, Washington, DC (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Environmental Restoration and Waste Management, Washington, DC (United States)
OSTI Identifier:
674664
Report Number(s):
DOE/EM-0371
ON: DE99000452; NC: NONE; TRN: 99:001053
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: Sep 1998
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
05 NUCLEAR FUELS; RADIOACTIVE WASTE FACILITIES; VITRIFICATION; PORTABLE EQUIPMENT; SETTLING PONDS; SLUDGES; HAZARDOUS MATERIALS; PERFORMANCE; COST; FIELD TESTS

Citation Formats

. Innovative technology summary report: Transportable vitrification system. United States: N. p., 1998. Web. doi:10.2172/674664.
. Innovative technology summary report: Transportable vitrification system. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/674664
. 1998. "Innovative technology summary report: Transportable vitrification system". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/674664. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/674664.
@article{osti_674664,
title = {Innovative technology summary report: Transportable vitrification system},
author = {},
abstractNote = {At the end of the cold war, many of the Department of Energy`s (DOE`s) major nuclear weapons facilities refocused their efforts on finding technically sound, economic, regulatory compliant, and stakeholder acceptable treatment solutions for the legacy of mixed wastes they had produced. In particular, an advanced stabilization process that could effectively treat the large volumes of settling pond and treatment sludges was needed. Based on this need, DOE and its contractors initiated in 1993 the EM-50 sponsored development effort required to produce a deployable mixed waste vitrification system. As a consequence, the Transportable Vitrification System (TVS) effort was undertaken with the primary requirement to develop and demonstrate the technology and associated facility to effectively vitrify, for compliant disposal, the applicable mixed waste sludges and solids across the various DOE complex sites. After 4 years of development testing with both crucible and pilot-scale melters, the TVS facility was constructed by Envitco, evaluated and demonstrated with surrogates, and then successfully transported to the ORNL ETTP site and demonstrated with actual mixed wastes in the fall of 1997. This paper describes the technology, its performance, the technology applicability and alternatives, cost, regulatory and policy issues, and lessons learned.},
doi = {10.2172/674664},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/674664}, journal = {},
number = ,
volume = ,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 1998},
month = {Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 1998}
}