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Title: Mobilization of cohesive sludge in storage tanks using jet mixers

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The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Savannah River Site and ITT Flygt Corporation conducted a joint mixer testing program sponsored by the DOE to evaluate the applicability of Flygt mixers to nuclear tank waste retrieval. Testing was carried out in three different tank sizes so that a scaling method could be evaluated and validated and the results could be used to make a full-scale mixer performance prediction. This presentation focuses on testing the mobilization of the sludge simulant composed of fine-grained particles cohesively bonded together by both colloidal and mechanical forces.

Research Organization:
Savannah River Site (SRS), Aiken, SC (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
US Department of Energy (US)
DOE Contract Number:
AC09-96SR18500
OSTI ID:
751059
Report Number(s):
WSRC-MS-99-00870; TRN: US0000875
Resource Relation:
Conference: 10th European Conference on Mixing, Delft (NL), 06/02/2000--06/05/2000; Other Information: PBD: 4 Feb 2000
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English