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Radioactive Waste Water Distillation Data and Costs R. RUPERT KOUNTZ, Professor of Sanitary Engineering The Pennsylvania State University University Park, Pennsylvania During 1961 the University negotiated with the Research Reactor Section of AMF Atomics, Greenwich, Connecticut, in regard to conducting a series of tests involving the use of an evaporator (manufactured by the Maxim Division of the American Machine and Foundry Company) for the purification of radioactive waste waters. AMF Atomics provided the evaporator and the University provided the utilities and staff for the series of tests. The following is a report on the first phase of the tests conducted on the evaporator, togetner with an estimation oi projected operating charges for continuous routine application of the unit for the purification of waste waters. EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES The purpose in conducting the performance tests of the Aquavap unit (VJ-20 Evaporator) was to determine if it was possible to purify radio-active waste water of varying concentrations of solids, varying acidity and varying radio-activity, and by such purification obtain a water that was suitable for reuse in the Reactor or for discharge into the public water resources of the state without endangering public health or conservation resources. The industrial wastes permit issued to the university for the Nuclear Reactor requires that liquid wastes discharged to the waters of the commonwealth shall comply with the Pennsylvania Department of Health Radiation Protection Regulation 433. More specifically the permit states that the average consecutive daily discharge shall be less than 0.2 microcuries for a 365- day period (maximum single daily discharge to be less than 0. 8 microcuries) and the effluent concentration at no time shall have a concentration greater than 10"8 microcuries per milliliter. Furthermore, such purification must be economically feasible and the operation of the process must be without hazard or undue attention by either skilled employees or professional personnel. Equipment The equipment involved in this test program was fundamentally the VJ-20 Evaporator manufactured by the Maxim Division of American Machine and Foundry Company. The Evaporator was located in a "pre-fab" metal building erected on a site adjacent to the Nuclear Reactor at the university. The housing for the evaporator had floor dimensions of 12 ft by 24 ft, and in addition to containing the evaporator it housed a stainless steel waste water storage tank that was 10 ft by 10 ft in plan and had a depth of 10 ft (capacity: 7, 500 gals). The test building was supplied with the following utilities: Potable water, electricity, storm sewer, and steam, the latter being employed to heat water which in turn was the source of heat supply for the evaporator. - 409 -
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Purdue Identification Number | ETRIWC196235 |
Title | Radioactive waste water distillation data and cost |
Author | Kountz, R. Rupert |
Date of Original | 1962 |
Conference Title | Proceedings of the seventeenth Industrial Waste Conference |
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Extent of Original | p. 409-420 |
Collection Title | Engineering Technical Reports Collection, Purdue University |
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Transcript | Radioactive Waste Water Distillation Data and Costs R. RUPERT KOUNTZ, Professor of Sanitary Engineering The Pennsylvania State University University Park, Pennsylvania During 1961 the University negotiated with the Research Reactor Section of AMF Atomics, Greenwich, Connecticut, in regard to conducting a series of tests involving the use of an evaporator (manufactured by the Maxim Division of the American Machine and Foundry Company) for the purification of radioactive waste waters. AMF Atomics provided the evaporator and the University provided the utilities and staff for the series of tests. The following is a report on the first phase of the tests conducted on the evaporator, togetner with an estimation oi projected operating charges for continuous routine application of the unit for the purification of waste waters. EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES The purpose in conducting the performance tests of the Aquavap unit (VJ-20 Evaporator) was to determine if it was possible to purify radio-active waste water of varying concentrations of solids, varying acidity and varying radio-activity, and by such purification obtain a water that was suitable for reuse in the Reactor or for discharge into the public water resources of the state without endangering public health or conservation resources. The industrial wastes permit issued to the university for the Nuclear Reactor requires that liquid wastes discharged to the waters of the commonwealth shall comply with the Pennsylvania Department of Health Radiation Protection Regulation 433. More specifically the permit states that the average consecutive daily discharge shall be less than 0.2 microcuries for a 365- day period (maximum single daily discharge to be less than 0. 8 microcuries) and the effluent concentration at no time shall have a concentration greater than 10"8 microcuries per milliliter. Furthermore, such purification must be economically feasible and the operation of the process must be without hazard or undue attention by either skilled employees or professional personnel. Equipment The equipment involved in this test program was fundamentally the VJ-20 Evaporator manufactured by the Maxim Division of American Machine and Foundry Company. The Evaporator was located in a "pre-fab" metal building erected on a site adjacent to the Nuclear Reactor at the university. The housing for the evaporator had floor dimensions of 12 ft by 24 ft, and in addition to containing the evaporator it housed a stainless steel waste water storage tank that was 10 ft by 10 ft in plan and had a depth of 10 ft (capacity: 7, 500 gals). The test building was supplied with the following utilities: Potable water, electricity, storm sewer, and steam, the latter being employed to heat water which in turn was the source of heat supply for the evaporator. - 409 - |
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