Metal finishing wastewater pressure filter optimization

Conference · Thu Dec 31 04:00:00 EST 1992

OSTI ID:10148678

Norford, S W; Diener, G A; Martin, H L

The 300-M Area Liquid Effluent Treatment Facility (LETF) of the Savannah River Site (SRS) is an end-of-pipe industrial wastewater treatment facility, that uses precipitation and filtration which is the EPA Best Available Technology economically achievable for a Metal Finishing and Aluminum Form Industries. The LETF consists of three close-coupled treatment facilities: the Dilute Effluent Treatment Facility (DETF), which uses wastewater equalization, physical/chemical precipitation, flocculation, and filtration; the Chemical Treatment Facility (CTF), which slurries the filter cake generated from the DETF and pumps it to interim-StatuS RCRA storage tanks; and the Interim Treatment/Storage Facility (IT/SF) which stores the waste from the CTF until the waste is stabilized/solidified for permanent disposal, 85% of the stored waste is from past nickel plating and aluminum canning of depleted uranium targets for the SRS nuclear reactors. Waste minimization and filtration efficiency are key to cost effective treatment of the supernate, because the waste filter cake generated is returned to the IT/SF. The DETF has been successfully optimized to achieve maximum efficiency and to minimize waste generation.

• Research Organization: Westinghouse Savannah River Co., Aiken, SC (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC09-89SR18035
• OSTI ID: 10148678
• Report Number(s): WSRC-MS--92-479; CONF-9305166--1; ON: DE93012139
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
540320
540330
CHEMICALS MONITORING AND TRANSPORT
FILTERS
FILTRATION
FLOCCULATION
LIQUID WASTES
PARTICULATES
PH VALUE
PRECIPITATION
PRODUCTION REACTORS
RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS MONITORING AND TRANSPORT
SAVANNAH RIVER PLANT
SLURRIES
SURFACE WATERS
WASTE DISPOSAL
WASTE FORMS
WASTE PROCESSING
WASTE WATER