Potential Applicability of Assembled Chemical Weapons

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Assessment Technologies to RCRA Waste Streams and

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Contaminated Media

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CONTENTS

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ii

1.0 INTRODUCTION 1-1

2.0 DESCRIPTION OF ACWA TECHNOLOGIES . 2-1

2.1 AEA’s SILVER IITM Technology. 2-4

2.1.1 Technology Description 2-4

2.1.2 Available Performance and Cost Data . 2-6

2.1.3 Results from ACWA Demonstration Testing . 2-7

2.2 AlliedSignal’s Immobilized Cell BioreactorTM (ICBTM) Technology 2-7

2.2.1 Technology Description 2-7

2.2.2 Available Performance and Cost Data . 2-7

2.2.3 Results from ACWA Demonstration Testing 2-10

2.3 Commodore’s Solvated Electron Technology . 2-11

2.3.1 Technology Description. 2-11

2.3.2 Available Performance and Cost Data 2-13

2.3.3 Results from ACWA Testing . 2-17

2.4 Eco Logic’s Gas Phase Chemical Reduction Technology2-17

2.4.1 Technology Description. 2-17

2.4.2 Available Performance and Cost Data 2-18

2.4.3 Results from the ACWA Testing Program 2-23

2.5 Foster Wheeler’s Supercritical Water Oxidation Technology 2-23

2.5.1 Technology Description. 2-23

2.5.2 Available Performance and Cost Data 2-25

2.5.3 Results from ACWA Demonstration Testing 2-26

2.6 General Atomics’ SCWO Technology 2-26

2.6.1 Technology Description. 2-27

2.6.2 Available Performance and Cost Data 2-28

2.6.3 Results from ACWA Demonstration Testing 2-30

2.7 Startech’s Plasma Waste Converter Technology. 2-30

2.7.1 Technology Description. 2-31

2.7.2 Available Performance and Cost Data 2-32

2.7.3 Results from ACWA Demonstration Testing 2-34

3.0 POTENTIAL FOR APPLICATION OF ACWA TECHNOLOGIES TO TREAT RCRA WASTE

STREAMS COMPARABLE TO ACWA WASTES3-1

3.1 Applicability to Treating RCRA Wastes Currently Treated by Combustion 3-1

3.2 Applicability to Treating RCRA Appendix VIII Wastes with Chemical Structures Similar to ACWA

Chemicals 3-5

4.0 POTENTIAL FOR APPLICATION OF ACWA TECHNOLOGIES TO TRAT CONTAMINATED

WASTES AND MEDIA. 4-1

5.0 REFERENCES. 5-1

APPENDIX A

A-1 Additional Background on the ACWA Program A-1

A-2 Summary of ACWA Technology Service Providers and Technologies Relevant to EPA Effort .

A-3

A-3 Points of Contact at ACWA Technology Service Providers and their Team Members A-4

APPENDIX B

B-1 Vendors Listed in EPA REACH IT as Providing Technologies Similar to ACWA Technologies. B-3

APPENDIX C

C-1 Management Methods for Selected Liquid Wastes Generated and Managed On Site and

Received from Off Site for ManagementC-2

C-2 Management Methods for Selected Solid and Sludge Wastes Generated and Managed On Site

and Received from Off Site for Management . C-3

C-3 Management Methods for Selected Liquid Wastes Generated and Managed On Site . C-4

C-4 Management Methods for Selected Liquid Wastes Received from Off Site for Management .

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C-5 Management Methods for Selected Solid and Sludge Wastes Generated and Managed On Site .

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C-6 Management Methods for Selected Solid and Sludge Wastes Received from Off Site for

Management . . C-7

C-7 RCRA BRS System Type Codes and Descriptions C-8