Assessment and development of an industrial wet oxidation system for burning waste and low upgrade fuels. Final report, Phase 2B: Pilot demonstration of the MODAR supercritical water oxidation process

Technical Report · Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1994

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/10141159· OSTI ID:10141159

Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation is Project Manager for the Development and Demonstration of an Industrial Wet Oxidation System for Burning Wastes and Low Grade Fuel. This program has been ongoing through a Cooperative Agreement sponsored by the Department of Energy, initiated in June 1988. This report presents a comprehensive discussion of the results of the demonstration project conducted under this cooperative agreement with the overall goal of advancing the state-of-the-art in the practice of Supercritical Water Oxidation (SCWO). In recognition of the Government`s support of this project, we have endeavored to include all material and results that are not proprietary in as much detail as possible while still protecting MODAR`s proprietary technology. A specific example is in the discussion of materials of construction where results are presented while, in some cases, the specific materials are not identified. The report presents the results chronologically. Background material on the earlier phases (Section 2) provide an understanding of the evolution of the program, and bring all reviewers to a common starting point. Section 3 provides a discussion of activities from October 1991 through July 1992, during which the pilot plant was designed; and various studies including computational fluid dynamic modeling of the reactor vessel, and a process HAZOP analyses were conducted. Significant events during fabrication are presented in Section 4. The experimental results of the test program (December 1992--August 1993) are discussed in Section 5.

• Research Organization: Stone and Webster Engineering Corp., Boston, MA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: FC04-88ID12711
• OSTI ID: 10141159
• Report Number(s): DOE/ID/12711-T2; ON: DE94009774; BR: CE0000000/ED0101000
• Resource Relation: Other Information: PBD: Jan 1994
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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