Laboratory-Scale Melter Systems for Simulated and Real AP-107 Tank Waste - 20483
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99354 (United States)
- Washington River Protection Solutions, Richland WA, 99354 (United States)
The Hanford Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) will process and stabilize waste that is stored in underground tanks on the Hanford Site. At the WTP, the tank waste will be combined with glass-forming and modifying additives to form an aqueous and solid mixture called melter feed, which will then be vitrified in joule-heated melters. A small-scale melter system, the continuous laboratory-scale melter (CLSM), is designed to operate with a continuous feeding process while periodically pouring glass product and collecting off-gas. Two CLSMs were constructed: one in a non-radioactive environment for processing waste simulants and another in a fume hood capable of handling radioactive material for processing actual Hanford tank waste. The waste sample received for vitrification in the CLSM was from Hanford tank 241-AP-107. Approximately 12 liters of melter-feed slurry was vitrified into 7 kilograms of glass product over the course of 10 hours of charging to the CLSM. The partitioning of technetium-99 in the product streams was used to calculate the technetium-99 recovery and help determine when the vitrification process had reached a steady state. The average single-pass retention of technetium-99 in the glass product was then calculated for the processing of AP-107 waste in the CLSM system. (authors)
- Research Organization:
- WM Symposia, Inc., PO Box 27646, 85285-7646 Tempe, AZ (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 23030559
- Report Number(s):
- INIS-US-21-WM-20483; TRN: US21V1903070911
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: WM2020: 46. Annual Waste Management Conference, Phoenix, AZ (United States), 8-12 Mar 2020; Other Information: Country of input: France; 15 refs.; available online at: https://www.xcdsystem.com/wmsym/2020/index.html
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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