Process Options Description for Vitrification Flowsheet Model of INEEL Sodium Bearing Waste

Technical Report · Thu Feb 21 04:00:00 EST 2002

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/795909· OSTI ID:795909

Nichols, T T ^[1]; Taylor, D D; Lauerhass, L; Barnes, C M

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1. Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory

The technical information required for the development of a basic steady-state process simulation of the vitrification treatment train of sodium bearing waste (SBW) at Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory (INEEL) is presented. The objective of the modeling effort is to provide the predictive capability required to optimize an entire treatment train and assess system-wide impacts of local changes at individual unit operations, with the aim of reducing the schedule and cost of future process/facility design efforts. All the information required a priori for engineers to construct and link unit operation modules in a commercial software simulator to represent the alternative treatment trains is presented. The information is of a mid- to high-level nature and consists of the following: (1) a description of twenty-four specific unit operations--their operating conditions and constraints, primary species and key outputs, and the initial modeling approaches that will be used in the first year of the simulation's development; (2) three potential configurations of the unit operations (trains) and their interdependencies via stream connections; and (3) representative stream compositional makeups.

• Research Organization: Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory, Idaho Falls, ID (US)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Environmental Management (EM) (US)
• DOE Contract Number: AC07-99ID13727
• OSTI ID: 795909
• Report Number(s): INEEL/EXT-01-00173
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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12 MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES
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DESIGN
ENGINEERS
FLOWSHEETS
SCHEDULES
SIMULATION
SIMULATORS
SODIUM
SODIUM BEARING WASTE
TREATMENT
VITRIFICATION
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