Spent Crystalline Silicotitanate Storage Study
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
Washington River Protection Solutions is working to support initial production of immobilized low-activity waste (LAW) by feeding Hanford tank supernate from tank farms to the Hanford Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) LAW Facility. This goal incorporates the design of a Tank-Side Cesium Removal (TSCR) system, which filters tank waste supernate to remove suspended solids and then removes Cs by processing it through crystalline silicotitanate (CST) ion exchange media manufactured by Honeywell UOP, LLC. The 137Cs-depleted product is intended to be sent to the WTP for vitrification. The Cs-loaded CST columns will be stored indefinitely, with a goal of eventual CST removal and treatment. Thus, the spent CST needs to be recoverable. The testing described herein looks to potential upset process conditions where CST storage may be required before various rinse steps are completed. This study evaluated upset conditions at three sequential processing steps envisioned for TSCR (feed, 0.1 M NaOH rinse, water rinse), and in-column drying with compressed air (normal end step) to assess impacts on the nature of the CST bed. Testing was conducted at the small scale (12-mL bed volume); simulated AP-105 tank waste was used as the feed. Following process disruption, the CST bed was dried in place at 70 °C. Post-dried CST bed physical properties (angle of repose, penetration depth, particle morphological changes) were measured to evaluate how CST moved and flowed. The testing is intended to provide a preliminary assessment of issues that may arise from desiccation of CST with the indicated salt solutions in place. Since these were small-scale tests, the processing conditions will not match full scale conditions exactly; however, the tests do provide insight into the impact of stopping processing at an earlier step than normal. Except for the feed that was dried in-place, all other process stop-conditions showed the CST bed flowed well after drying. At this small scale, CST beds would not present an issue for retrievability. The feed that was dried in place had solidified into a rock-hard monolith with no movement possible. Samples had to be chipped from the surface.
- Research Organization:
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC05-76RL01830
- OSTI ID:
- 2394659
- Report Number(s):
- PNNL--30174; RPT-DFTP--018
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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