Saltstone Facility Operating Experience with Mega-Vault Disposal Units - 19497
- Savannah River Remediation, Aiken, SC 29808 (United States)
The Saltstone Production Facility (SPF) has been treating low-level waste aqueous salt solution at the Savannah River Site (SRS) since 1990. Salt solutions are transferred from a large-volume, underground storage tank via underground waste transfer line into the SPF. The waste is received into one of two receipt tanks and then transferred to a twin-shaft mixer where dry feeds are introduced to create a fresh grout slurry. The grout exits the mixer into a hold tank, which has a residence time of approximately two minutes. The slurry is then pumped via peristaltic pump through a grout transfer line to one of several disposal units in the Saltstone Disposal Facility (SDF). The transfer line length varies from 0.4 km to 0.8 km depending on disposal location. With the salt disposal mission at SRS accelerating via the operation of the Modular Caustic Side Solvent Extraction (MCU) facility and the anticipated startup of the Salt Waste Processing Facility (SWPF), it is important that the SPF and SDF operate with minimal outage time and maximum facility availability. To this end, the design of the newest disposal units has incorporated the benefits of commercially available cylindrical concrete tank design on a very large scale to maximize economies of scale. This new design has been placed into radioactive service and the initial operational data will be compared with previous disposal operations along with an overview of how disposal unit design has significantly evolved since the initial construction in the early 1990's. Additionally, several processing facility modifications have either been implemented or developed in recent years to improve operating reliability and ensure facility availability once the SWPF becomes the primary waste generator providing feed for the SPF. These modifications, the issues driving their development, and an assessment of their effectiveness will also be discussed. (author)
- Research Organization:
- WM Symposia, Inc., PO Box 27646, 85285-7646 Tempe, AZ (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 23005370
- Report Number(s):
- INIS-US-21-WM-19497; TRN: US21V1297045704
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: WM2019: 45. Annual Waste Management Conference, Phoenix, AZ (United States), 3-7 Mar 2019; Other Information: Country of input: France; 6 refs.; available online at: https://www.xcdsystem.com/wmsym/2019/index.html
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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