DOE/EPA Site Demonstration
This test plan is one of three sections of the Demonstration Plan that covers the startup, shakedown, and DOE portion of the Retech plasma centrifugal furnace (PCF-6) demonstration being conducted at the Component Development and Integration Facility (CDIF) in Butte, Montana. The CDIF is part of the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory (INEL). The Demonstration Plan covers a projected maximum of 420 hours of testing. This includes a shakedown campaign consisting of three series of tests: furnace operational tests (Series 1), supplementary fuel tests (Series 2), and preliminary DOE tests (Series 3). The Radioactive Waste Management Complex (RWMC) test campaign and the sludge campaign are the main DOE tests. The RWMC campaign will process a feed material that simulates the nonradioactive buried waste components in Idaho; the sludge campaign will process a feed material that simulates typical water treatment plant sludge. The major objective of the RWMC Campaign is to determine the applicability of the (PCF-6) toward destruction of typical Radioactive Waste Management Complex (RWMC) wastes. In the sludge campaign, the PCF-6 will be fed a slurry of metal hydroxides, which is intended to represent a sludge from an industrial water treatment plant. The furnace will also be fed a soil that will be used to encapsulate the metals in the sludge. The objectives of the test are to determine if the furnace will produce a slag that is nonleachable by EP Toxicity methods. 3 figs., 7 tabs.
- Research Organization:
- MSE, Inc., Butte, MT (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE; USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC07-88ID12735
- OSTI ID:
- 5571665
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/ID/12735-T16; ON: DE91015936
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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