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Brine waste represents the largest waste stream at baseline incineration sites. The total volume is estimated to be as much as 24,000 tons per year at ANCDF, PBCDF, and TOCDF.19 At UMCDF, a thermal evaporation brine reduction process is used to concentrate the brine solution to brine salts before disposal. Analytical procedures exist for the characterization of brine solutions and brine salt waste. The procedures are detailed in the waste analysis plan for each site. Most brine waste streams, either liquid or salt, are characterized and shipped off-site for disposal at a permitted TSDF. Therefore, while brine waste is a large stream, readily available off-site disposal options exist for both the spent brine solutions and the brine salts. No brine waste exists at NECDF. 

The three most voluminous closure wastes at the incineration sites are metals, spent activated carbon, and rubble or debris. Of these, contaminated metal is probably the easiest to manage as it will most probably be cut up and put through the metal parts furnace for decontamination and disposal. Provisions for recycling treated scrap metal have already been included in the RCRA permits for each site. A review is needed prior to closure to ensure that scrap metal from closure operations can be handled in the same fashion and that proper analytical and on-site decontamination procedures are in place to clear the metal for shipment. 

After the end of the war the Soviets turned the ravine of Babi Yar into a municipal garbage dump, and later into a garbage incineration site.116... 

Peterman PH, Lebo JA, Major HJ (1988) Accurate mass determination of polychlorinated dibenzothiophenes in soil from a capacitor plants incineration site, Proc of the 36th ASMS Conference on Mass Spectrometry and Allied Topics, San Francisco, p 240... 

We should also consider the other kinds of and smaller size of COj emission site, for example, disposal and incineration sites of waste, and activated sludge... 

Using protective clothing and containment systems at the waste storage sites and during transportation of wastes to the incinerator site ... 

During the winter of 1991, bulk mustard was drained from preheated (20°C) 1 ton containers into heavy-walled, polyethylene-lined cardboard boxes and allowed to freeze under cool conditions (<0°C). The boxes containing frozen mustard were then placed in sealed metal cargo containers and immediately transported to the incinerator site. The boxes were then off-loaded and processed via the rotary kiln solids feed system. All bulk mustard (3 tonnes) was destroyed in this manner as part of the incinerator test bum program (see below). 

The original control system design common to all of the incineration sites is also based on 1980s technology. Some improvements have been made to support continuing operations. 

Recommendation 4. The Chemical Demilitarization Training Facility/skunk works facility and its knowledgeable personnel should be maintained as a support resource until all chemical agent stocks have been safely removed from storage and processed by the disassembly robotics at all incineration sites. (Tier 3)... 

This chapter examines potential vulnerabilities to successful completion of the U.S. chemical stodqtile disposal program that could become issues due to obsolescence. This chapter is focused on facilities, equipment, and the personnel required to operate, maintain, and eventually close the chemical agent stockpile incineration facilities at each operational incineration site. 

Under an annually renewed, systemwide contract with WGI, Rockwell Automation works with all of the incineration sites through surveys and visits to forecast requirements for control system spares (based on historical and forecast spares depletion rates), establish certified spares inventory levels for each site, repair or rebuild failed parts and components, and to special-build new parts and circuit cards as needed to keep maintenance inventories at a safe operational level. The Rockwell Automation support group, located in Cleveland, Ohio, also implemented a relatively simple soft-... 

The committee reviewed the process control systems at the TOCDF and ANCDF in detail to assess their capability and capacity to handle current and forecast workloads. In addition, maintenance procedures, spares supportability, reliability, and availability were evaluated. The control systems at these sites are typical of those at the other two incineration sites. 

At the request of the CMA, site contractors have begun to develop plans for managing obsolescence. The TOCDF site started making plans independently the Washington Group International (WGI) sites developed a three-site initiative for the other incineration sites. 

The incineration sites have collectively developed a list... 

Each of the incineration sites operates under Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) and other state and local permits that specify plant configuration and operating parameters approved for environmental compliance. Any significant changes to permitted conditions must be reported, and major modifications may require extended re-... 

The equipment that may be required during closure of the incineration sites will include, but not be limited to, monitoring equipment, the metals parts furnace and its ancillary process equipment, the DFS and its ancillary process equipment, and the pollution abatement systems (PAS). 

The selection of a site for an incineration facility should take into account the method of waste transport, the distance firom the waste source to the incinerator site, and the distance from the incinerator site to the disposal site. All environmental aspects shall be taken into consideration. 

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