Report of Investigations 9528: Evaluation of the Three-Phase, Electric Arc Melting Furnace for Treatment of Simulated, Thermally Oxidized Radioactive and Mixed Wastes (In Two Parts): 1. Design Criteria and Description of Integrated Waste Treatment Facility

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• Journal Article:
  Albany, OR: U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, RI 9612
• Personal Author:
  Hartman, Alan D. ; O'Connor, William K. ; Oden, Laurance L. ; Turner, P. C.
• Description:
  The U.S. Bureau of Mines successfully melted soil and mixtures of soil and simulated, thermally oxidized transuramic radionuclide-contaminated wastes from the Subsurface Disposal Area of the Radiation Waste Management Complex at the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory. The waste mixtures contained about 0.5 pct cerium oxide as a surrogate for transuranic radionuclide elements, and two of the mixtures contained additions of titanium and zirconium oxides to produce tailored glass-ceramic final waste forms. Over 52,000 lb of material were melted at feed rates up to 1,500 lb/h and with continuous tapping of slag to achieve volume reduction of about 55 pct. Product slag accounted for 83.5 pct of the total charge 2.4 pct reported to a metal ingot, 1.8 pct was recovered from the air pollution control system, and 12.3 pct was unrecovered, noncondensable gases for the shakedown plus 5-day continuous tests. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Chemistry Hazardous Substances Occupational Health Radiography Safety Temperature Waste Management
• Keywords:
  Air-pollution-control; Chemical-analysis; Consolidation; Electric-arc-furnaces; Emissions; Gases; Melting-furnaces; Melting-tests; Mixed-wastes; Radioactive-waste-treatment; Slags; Solid-waste-disposal; Temperature; Toxic-agents; Vitrification; Waste-processing; X-ray-diffraction; Waste-disposal-systems; Toxic-materials; Quantitative-analysis
• Source:
  Albany, OR: U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, RI 9612, 1996 Jan; :1-142
• Series:
  NIOSH Numbered Publications   ; Mining Publications  
• Subseries:
  Report of Investigations
• Publisher:
  U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Mines
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Report
• Place as Subject:
  Oregon ; OSHA Region 10
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  ALRC - Albany Research Center
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  22 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20039399
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB96-174644
• CAS Registry Number:
  Ceria (CAS RN 1306-38-3)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1996
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:400d8e2882f38cfa7c5b8b9f08d1e6a6460eaf0afd918d873297e2b47f733c4e3a83207c38920b993dc379b8d8564275ba8b6fae39fe896a7c86749cf9d8499a
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/10132/cdc_10132_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 6.00 MB ]