Data acquisition testing in supercritical water oxidation using machine cutting oils and metals

Book · Tue Dec 31 04:00:00 EST 1996

OSTI ID:442713

Garcia, K M ^[1]

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1. Lockheed Martin Idaho Technologies Co., Idaho Falls, ID (United States). Idaho National Engineering Lab.

The Department of Energy, the Navy, and SERDP provided funding for an extensive series of testing of a Supercritical Water Oxidation (SCWO) system. The goal of the testing was to create performance data on the process when dealing with highly chlorinated wastes containing heavy metals, and radionuclides. The testing was performed in a MODAR vessel oxidizer. Performance was measured by the ability of the process to achieve greater than 99.99% destruction of the organic content, to partition the metals and radionuclide surrogates for mass balance, and survive the highly corrosive species in the effluent. The test data has shown that these goals were accomplished. 30 gal/day of highly chlorinated machine cutting oil was treated for 130 hrs. There were no significant corrosion or solids handling problems. This machine cutting oil, TRIM{reg_sign}SOL was chosen by DOE for its complex nature and has proven to be one of the more refractory organic feeds encountered by MODAR. The Navy provided 8 waste streams collected from their shore facilities operation. These paints varied in solids content with wastes such as paint chips, and adhesives. The ninth test run was with all 8 series of wastes combined. The MODAR system successfully treated all of these waste streams providing performance data on the ability of SCWO to treat difficult sludges.

• DOE Contract Number: AC07-94ID13223
• OSTI ID: 442713
• Report Number(s): CONF-961105--; ISBN 0-7918-1523-4
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

05 NUCLEAR FUELS
32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION
ADHESIVES
CHEMICAL REACTORS
EXPERIMENTAL DATA
HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
LUBRICATING OILS
ORGANIC CHLORINE COMPOUNDS
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
OXIDATION
PAINTS
PERFORMANCE TESTING
RADIOACTIVE WASTE PROCESSING
SUPERCRITICAL STATE
WASTE PROCESSING