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Monitoring and Removing Hazardous and Radioactive Contaminants from Offgas Streams

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Tech ID: 2135
Project Overview
This project provides technical support to DOE waste treatment facilities in their need to understand what impact emission regulations will have on their operation and how to comply with those regulations. Activities in the project include sampling and analyzing incinerator offgas streams for hazardous effluents including mercury and dioxins/furans, testing of offgas diagnostic.

Benefits: DOE's mixed waste incinerators cannot meet all provisions of upcoming EPA regulations. Successful application of this task will help sites obtain and maintain operating permits, which will allow DOE's waste treatment facilities to continue to operate and meet various state compliance agreements. Enables facilities to develop offgas control systems to meet compliance emission limits.

Technology Description
 This project consists of several activities to aid DOE treatment facilities in understanding their needs for offgas control and emission monitoring. Activities include: a) technical assistance teams to identify potential problem areas and solutions, b) sampling, analysis, and monitoring of process offgas during comprehensive testing to define emissions relative to operating parameters, and c) testing of potential control techniques to determine their ability to address problematic emissions. Problem areas include dioxin formation and removal, mercury removal from offgas and scrub solutions, NOx removal, and chlorine/hydrogen chloride control.

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