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Title: Mixing of Process Heels, Process Solutions and Recycle Streams: Small-Scale Simulant

Abstract

The overall objective of this small-scale simulant mixing study was to identify the processes within the Hanford Site River Protection Project-Waste Treatment Plant (RPP-WTP) that may generate precipitates and to identify the types of precipitates formed. This information can be used to identify where mixtures of various solutions will cause precipitation of solids, potentially causing operational problems such as fouling equipment or increasing the amount of High Level Waste glass produced. Having this information will help guide protocols for flushing or draining tanks, mixing internal recycle streams, and mixing waste tank supernates. This report contains the discussion and thermodynamic chemical speciation modeling of the raw data.

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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Savannah River Site (US)
Sponsoring Org.:
US Department of Energy (US)
OSTI Identifier:
783817
Report Number(s):
WSRC-TR-2000-00307
TRN: US0406813
DOE Contract Number:
AC09-96SR18500
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: 26 Jul 2001; PBD: 26 Jul 2001
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
12 MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE WASTES, AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES; FOULING; GLASS; MIXTURES; PRECIPITATION; PROCESS SOLUTIONS; SIMULATION; TANKS; THERMODYNAMICS; WASTES; RADIOACTIVE WASTE FACILITIES; RADIOACTIVE WASTE PROCESSING; RESIDUES; RECYCLING; HANFORD RESERVATION

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Kaplan, D.I. Mixing of Process Heels, Process Solutions and Recycle Streams: Small-Scale Simulant. United States: N. p., 2001. Web. doi:10.2172/783817.
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title = {Mixing of Process Heels, Process Solutions and Recycle Streams: Small-Scale Simulant},
author = {Kaplan, D.I.},
abstractNote = {The overall objective of this small-scale simulant mixing study was to identify the processes within the Hanford Site River Protection Project-Waste Treatment Plant (RPP-WTP) that may generate precipitates and to identify the types of precipitates formed. This information can be used to identify where mixtures of various solutions will cause precipitation of solids, potentially causing operational problems such as fouling equipment or increasing the amount of High Level Waste glass produced. Having this information will help guide protocols for flushing or draining tanks, mixing internal recycle streams, and mixing waste tank supernates. This report contains the discussion and thermodynamic chemical speciation modeling of the raw data.},
doi = {10.2172/783817},
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year = {Thu Jul 26 00:00:00 EDT 2001},
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