Waste, liquid

1 Liquid wastes. Historically, the most important radioactive wastes have been liquid wastes that arise from chemical reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel for defense production purposes, i.e., for the purpose of extracting plutonium for use in nuclear weapons. These wastes contain varying concentrations of many radionuclides, primarily fission products and long-lived, alpha-emitting transuranium isotopes. 

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Pollutant Emissions from Liquid Waste Incinerators. 

Nuclear Waste Reprocessing. Liquid waste remaining from processing of spent reactor fuel for military plutonium production is typically acidic and contains substantial transuranic residues. The cleanup of such waste in 1996 is a higher priority than military plutonium processing. Cleanup requires removal of long-Hved actinides from nitric or hydrochloric acid solutions. The transuranium extraction (Tmex) process has been developed for... 

No problems with liquid-waste disposal, water pollution, or liquid freezing... 

Much of the experience and data from wastewater treatment has been gained from municipal treatment plants. Industrial liquid wastes are similar to wastewater but differ in significant ways. Thus, typical design parameters and standards developed for municipal wastewater operations must not be blindly utilized for industrial wastewater. It is best to run laboratory and small pilot tests with the specific industrial wastewater as part of the design process. It is most important to understand the temporal variations in industrial wastewater strength, flow, and waste components and their effect on the performance of various treatment processes. Industry personnel in an effort to reduce cost often neglect laboratory and pilot studies and depend on waste characteristics from similar plants. This strategy often results in failure, delay, and increased costs. Careful studies on the actual waste at a plant site cannot be overemphasized. 

The generation of hazardous wastes by spillage must also be considered. The quantities of hazardous wastes that are involved in spiUage usually are not known. After a spUl, the wastes requiring collection and disposal are often significantly greater than the amount of spiUed wastes, especially when an absorbing material, such as straw, is used to soak up liquid hazardous wastes or when the soU into which a hazardous liquid waste has percolated must be excavated. Both the straw and hquid and the soU and the liqmd are classified as hazardous wastes. 

Deep-Well Injection Deep-well injection for the disposal of liquid wastes involves injecting the wastes deep in the ground into permeable rock formation (typically limestone or dolomite) or underground caverns. 

Applications Deep-well injection has been used principally for liquid wastes that are difficult to treat and dispose of by more conventional methods and for hazardous wastes. Chemical, petrochemical, and pharmaceutical wastes are those most commonly disposed of with this method. The waste may be liquid, gases, or solids. The gases and solids are either dissolved in the liquid or are carried along with the liquid. 

The most severe environmental problem of fruit and vegetable processors is the potential for water poUution if the liquid wastes are not handled properly. Cooking can cause odors, which are usually controlled by using furnaces as afterburners. 

Liquid waste disposal—evaporation, deep well injection (don t forget filtration and treating), mixing with river or ocean water (don t forget treating)... 

Leaching Gives an aqueous solution for treatment as liquid waste (Table 1 7.4)... 

Liquids suspended in gases (see also Liquid wastes)... 

Venmri scrubbers have been applied to control PM emissions from utility, industrial, commercial, and institutional boilers fired with coal, oil, wood, and liquid waste. They have also been applied to control emission sources in the chemical, mineral products, wood, pulp and paper, rock products, and asphalt manufacrnring industries lead, aluminum, iron and steel, and gray iron production industries and to municipal solid waste incinerators. Typically, venturi scrubbers are applied where it is necessary to obtain high collection efficiencies for fine PM. Thus, they are applicable to controlling emission sources with high concentrations of submicron PM. 

L = Liquid waste (non-aqueous waste) B21 Biological Treatment - Anaerobic... 

The types of incinerators which can be employed for incineration of liquid wastes include ... 

Applicability This process is applicable to liquid (pumpable) organic wastes and finely divided, fluidizable sludges. It may be particularly applicable to the processing of liquid wastes with a high chlorine, pesticide, PCB or dioxin content. Sludges must be capable of being fluidized by the addition of a liquid. Waste streams must be free of (or preprocessed to remove) solids, which prevent satisfactory atomization. 

Tittlebaum, Marty E., Roger Seals, Frank Cartledge, Stephanie Engels, Louisiana State University. State of the Art on Stabilization of Hazardous Organic Liquid Wastes and Sludges. Critical Reviews in Environmental Control, Volume 15, Issue 2,1985. 

Rotary kiln systems usually have a secondary combustion chamber after the kiln to ensure complete combustion of the wastes. Airtight seals close off the high end of the kiln while the lower end is connected to the secondary combustion chamber or mixing cluimber. In some cases, liquid waste is injected into the secondary combustion chamber. The kiln acts as the primary chamber to volatilize and oxidize combustibles in the wastes. Inert ash is then removed from the lower end of the kiln. The volatilized combustibles exit the kiln and enter the secondary chamber where additional oxygen is available and ignitable liquid wastes or fuel can be introduced. Complete combustion of the waste and fuel occurs in the secondar> chamber. 

As the name implies, the liquid injection incinerator is confined to hazardous liquids, slurries, and sludges with a viscosity value of 10,000 SUS (Saybold universal seconds) or less. This limitation reflects the requirement that a liquid waste be converted to a gas before combustion. This change is brought about in the combustion chamber and is generally expedited by increasing the waste surface area through atomiziition. An ideal droplet size is... 

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