(32f) 2009 THOR® (THermal Organic Reduction) Fluidized Bed Steam Reforming Engineering Scale Test Demonstration Phase 3 Analytical Results for Tank 48H Simulant

The Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) will perform lab analyzes on samples from the June 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. 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 final Phase 3 analytical results will be compared with prior 2008 and 2006 pilot scale results in terms of organic, nitrite, and nitrate destruction.