(136e) 2009 THOR® (Thermal Organic Reduction) Fluidized Bed Steam Reforming Engineering Scale Test

2009 THOR® Fluidized Bed Steam Reforming (FBSR) Engineering Scale Test Demonstration

(ESTD) Phase 3 with Tank 48H simulant at the Hazen Research Inc. (HRI) in Golden, Colorado. This

work is in support of the Savannah River Remediation Liquid Waste Operations for Tank 48 at the

Savannah River Site. The purpose of the 2009 ESTD Phase 3 testing at the Hazen facility is to

demonstrate the long term operability of an integrated FBSR processing system with product solids

handling capability. The THOR® Treatment Technologies (TTT) FBSR process of destroying

organics in the Tank 48 waste simulant and generating a solid carbonate product was successfully

demonstrated on the pilot scale level in 2006. Pilot scale tests were completed in 2008 (Phase 1) and

in 2009 (Phase 2) that further demonstrated the TTT FBSR process ability to destroy organics in the

Tank 48 simulant and produce a transportable solid carbonate waste form. The final Phase 3 pilot

scale testing will demonstrate the integrated TTT FBSR process capability to process the Tank 48

simulant from a slurry feed into a greater than 99% organic free and primarily dissolved carbonate

FBSR product slurry. The Phase 3 analytical results will be compared to prior 2008 and 2006 pilot

scale results in terms of organic, nitrite, and nitrate destruction.