Engineering and Technology Workshops

Summary Report Of 2007 Waste Processing Technical Exchanges And Workshops, September 2008

High-Level Waste Tank Integrity Workshop, May 2008

Go to http://srnl.doe.gov/hlwtiw/index.htm and click on Presentation Slides (PDF) to review workshop presentations and documentation of conference proceedings.

Slurry Retrieval, Pipeline Transport & Plugging and Mixing Workshop, January 2008

Day 1

	Slurry Retrieval, Pipeline Transport & Plugging and Mixing Workshop - Meeting Program
	Slurry Mixing, Rheology, and Handling Short Course
	Mixing, Rheology and Slurry Handling Course
	M4 Mixing Concepts - Turbulence
	M6 Liquid Blending Yield Stress Materials
	M7 Solids Liquid Mixing - Off Bottom and Distribution and Attrition
	M8 Some Comments on Scaling CFD for Solving Mixing Problems
	Nomenclature
	Slurry Mixing, Rheology, and Handling Short Course

Day 2

	Reducing Technical Risks & Uncertainties in EM Projects: The Tank Waste & Waste Processing Perspective
	Hanford Sludge Characterization
	S-102 Event on July 27, 2007 and Lessons to be Learned Relating to Sludge/Slurry Processing
	Sludge Waste Removal and Tank Closure
	SRNL Work to Support the Removal of Slurries from Waste Tanks, the Transport of Slurries in Pipelines, and the Separation of Solids from Liquids at SRS
	Overview of the Design Basis, Operating Experience, and the Application of Laboratory Data to Support the Transport and Mixing of Sludge Slurries in the Defence Waste Processing Facility
	Slurry Transfer at the Idaho National Laboratory
	Tank Waste Retrieval Operations at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
	ORNL MVST Sludge (SL) Solidification Feasibilty Study Overview
	Improving Technical Success in Projects at DuPont

Day 3

	New Technology and Solids: A Difficult Combination
	Gravity Flow Systems
	Critical Velocity w/Viscosity Adjustment
	Mixing Sludges & Slurries with Pulsed Juets: Some Mixing Theory & Test Results
	The Rheology and Surface Chemistry of Slurries

Day 4

	Slurry Transportation - An Overview
	Predicting Slurry Pump Performance in Nuclear Waste Storage Tanks
	Impeller Diameter Reduction of a Radioactive Sludge Transfer Pump
	Examples of slurry Retrieval, Pipeline Transport & Plugging and Mixing issues at Sellafield in the UK
	K-Basin Sludge Transfer Hose-in-Hose
	On the Formation and Treatment of Trisodium Phosphate Plugs
	Imaging and Tomography at Sellafield in the UK
	Mixing Within the Salt Waste Processing Facility [SWPF] – Air Pulse Agitators (APA’s)
	Slurry Suspension

Test Platform/Test Facility Technical Session, January 2008

03/08/08 - Lessons Learned from the Test Facility Technical Exchange

Day 1

	Meeting Agenda
	Meeting Objective
	Examples of Beneficial Discussion
	Office of River Protection Waste Treatment Plant
	Reducing Technical Risks and Uncertainties in EM Projects
	Waste Treatment Plant Pretreatment Engineering Platform Testing Overview
	THOR Steam Reforming Pilot Plant Demonstration Program Experience
	Tank Farm Closure Lessons Learned
	Lunch Guide
	Pilot Plant Lessons Learned Technical Exchange
	Simulants to Support RPP-WTP and SRS
	SNL WTP Pilot Testing
	Lessons Learned from SRS Salt Processing Scale-Up: Filtration and Solvent Extraction
	Pilot Plant Testing - Summary Remarks
	Pilot Scale Testing of the Small Tank Tetraphenylborate Process
	Pilot Scale Testing in Support of K-65 Waste Retrieval and Treatment at the Fernald Site
	Cold Testing Support for Fuel Cycle Facilities at ORNL
	Cold Test Support for the Gunite Tanks Remediation Project at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
	Test Facility Lessons Learned Technical Exchange Meeting Summary

Day 2

	LAW Pilot Melter Facility Lessons Learned
	LAW Pilot Melter Facility Lessons Learned
	HLW Pilot Melter Facility (DM1200) Lessons Learned
	Tank Waste and Melter Feed Simulants
	Fractional Crystallization Pilot Plant Test Program Objectives
	Pulse Jet Mixer Program
	Large-Scale Testing for Effects of AFA on Gas Retention/Release (Project #53030)
	Large-Scale Testing for Effects of AFA on Gas Retention/Release (Project #53030)
	Technical Information Sharing Test Platform/Test Facility Lessons Learned
	Waste Treatment Plant Pretreatment Engineering Platform
	WTP Test Platform/Test Facility Technical Session
	Test Platform Test Facility Techncial Session
	Waste Treatment Plant Pretreatment Engineering Platform (WTP PEP)
	Suggested Format for your Simulant Presentation - Press Format
	Suggested Format for your Simulant Presentation
	Suggested Format for your Test Platform-Test Facility Presentation
	Technical Information Sharing Presenters

Savannah River/Hanford/Idaho Technical Exchange, October 2007

Aluminum and Chromium Leaching Workshop, January 2007

	1/23-24/07 - Aluminum/Chromium Leaching Workshop
	04/25/07 - Aluminum and Chromium Leaching Workshop Whitepaper