- Author
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Turner, D. A.
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Miron, Y.
- Title
- Testing of Organic Waste Surrogate Materials in Support of the Hanford Organic Tank Program. Final Report.
- Coporate
- Westinghouse Hanford Co., Richland, WA
Bureau of Mines, Pittsburgh, PA
- Sponsor
- Department of Energy, Washington, DC
- Report
-
WHC-MR-0455; UC-600
January 1994
175 p.
- Distribution
- Available from National Technical Information Service
- Contract
- DE-AC06-87RL10930
- Keywords
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storage tanks
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waste disposal
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fuels
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inorganic salts
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oxidizers
- Identifiers
- surrogate materials; organic salts
- Abstract
- To address safety issues regarding effective waste management efforts of underground organic waste storage tanks at the Hanford Site, the Bureau of Mines conducted a series of tests, at the request of the Westinghouse Hanford company. In this battery of tests, the thermal and explosive characteristics of surrogate materials, chosen by Hanford, were determined. The surrogate materials were mixtures of inorganic and organic sodium salts, representing fuels and oxidants. The oxidants were sodium nitrate and sodium nitrite. The fuels were sodium salts of oxalate, citrate and ethylenediamine tetraacetic acid (EDTA). Polyethylene powder was also used as a fuel with the oxidant(s). Sodium aluminate was used as a diluent. In addition, a sample of FeCN, supplied by Hanford was also investigated.