The Savannah River Plant Consolidated Incineration Facility

Conference · Thu Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1987

OSTI ID:6501662

Weber, D A

A full scale incinerator is proposed for construction at the Savannah River Plant (SRP) beginning in August 1989 for detoxifiction and volume reduction of liquid and solid low-level radioactive, mixed and RCRA hazardous waste. Wastes to be burned include drummed liquids, sludges and solids, liquid process wastes, and low-level boxed job control waste. The facility will consist of a rotary kiln primary combustion chamber followed by a tangentially fired cylindrical secondary combustion chamber (SCC) and be designed to process up to 12 tons per day of solid and liquid waste. Solid waste packaged in combustible containers will be fed to the rotary kiln incinerator using a ram feed system and liquid wastes will be introduced to the rotary kiln through a burner nozzle. Liquid waste will also be fed through a high intensity vortex burner in the SCC. Combustion gases will exit the SCC and be cooled to saturation in a spray quench. Particulate and acid gas are removed in a free jet scrubber. The off-gas will then pass through a cyclone separator, mist eliminator, reheater high efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filtration and induced draft blowers before release to the atmosphere. Incinerator ash and scrubber blowdown will be immobilized in a cement matrix and disposed of in an onsite RCRA permitted facility. The Consolidated Incineration Facility (CIF) will provide detoxification and volume reduction for up to 560,000 CUFT/yr of solid waste and up to 35,700 CUFT/yr of liquid waste. Up to 50,500 CUFT/yr of cement stabilized ash and blowdown will beproduced for an average overall volume reduction fator of 22:1. 3 figs., 2 tabs.

• Research Organization: Du Pont de Nemours (E.I.) and Co., Aiken, SC (USA). Savannah River Plant
• DOE Contract Number: AC09-76SR00001
• OSTI ID: 6501662
• Report Number(s): DP-MS-86-171; CONF-870429-1; ON: DE87010070
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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12 MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES
ASHES
CHEMICAL REACTIONS
COMBUSTION
CONCENTRATORS
COOLING
CYCLONE SEPARATORS
DESIGN
EQUIPMENT
FILTERS
FLUE GAS
GASEOUS WASTES
HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
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INERTIAL SEPARATORS
LOW-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTES
MATERIALS
NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
OXIDATION
PHASE TRANSFORMATIONS
POLLUTION CONTROL EQUIPMENT
RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS
RADIOACTIVE WASTES
RESIDUES
SAVANNAH RIVER PLANT
SCRUBBING
SEPARATION EQUIPMENT
SOLIDIFICATION
THERMOCHEMICAL PROCESSES
US AEC
US DOE
US ERDA
US ORGANIZATIONS
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