PETRO BOND? OIL SOLIDIFICATION POLYMER: HELPING TO SOLVE OIL WASTE PROBLEMS IN THE DOE COMPLEX

摘要

The DOE Office of Science and Technology, Deactivation and Decommissioning Focus Area is sponsoring a Large-Scale Demonstration and Deployment Project (LSDDP) at the DOE’s Miamisburg Environmental Management Project (MEMP), commonly known as the Mound Site. The goals of the LSDDP are to: 1. Demonstrate existing developed technologies that are unproven and/or unknown with respect to tritium Decontamination and Decommissioning (D&D) applications 2. Determine whether the technologies are superior, in safety and/or cost, to current “baseline” technologies, and 3. Communicate the demonstration results in such a manner that potential end users of the demonstrated technologies can easily decide whether or not to adopt these as “baseline” tools for performing future D&D work. This third objective is the focus of this paper, using the results of the PetroBond? demonstration. Substituting an innovative technology that is a safer, cheaper, faster, or better alternative into a baseline project is not only a prudent idea but also something that DOE sites will surely embrace in order to reduce cost and schedule. The LSDDP at Mound has demonstrated two technologies for solidifying fluids/sludges: (1) WaterWorks Crystals, to solidify water-based fluids, and (2) Nochar N-990 PetroBond? to solidify oils and oil-based fluids, such that the solidified materials meet the waste acceptance criteria at the final disposal facilities. In the LSDDP, both WaterWorks Crystals? and Nochar? PetroBond? completed bench scale tests and full-scale demonstrations and are being deployed for operational use at Mound. The project focus has now become to accomplish additional deployments at DOE sites that have immediate need for treatment and disposal of waste oils and aqueous fluids/sludges. It is the intent of this project to obtain descriptions and characterization profiles of the sludge or waste stream to be treated at each site, then to evaluate the target solution to confirm applicability to the technology already demonstrated at Mound. After evaluation, the project will assist the site in the first application of the technology, at a bench scale and then in full scale, in order to provide at least one drum of successfully solidified waste. The end product of these deployments is characterization data and a summary of conclusions on the sludges that will inform other facilities of the safety and viability of the product. This paper will discuss primarily the oil solidification deployments.