I am working on a project where sludge with an estimated viscosity of 300,000 cP (higher than peanut butter!) is being loaded into a cone-bottom tank. I say "estimated" viscosity because the sludge is slightly radioactive and nobody really knows its physical properties.
The sludge...
I posted the original message. Since then, the client has changed the process so that the captured air/tritium stream only needs to be compressed to 200 psi rather than 2,200 psi. Quite a difference!
My thanks to JKEngineer for the Bureau of Mines suggestion and to Flareman for sending me a...
Hi all,
I am an MSChE working as an environmental consultant. I have a client who has designed a 1600-gallon vacuum enclosure in which he can open 30-gallon drums of waste and collect any tritium (isotope of hydrogen) which may be present in the drums. Tritium has many of the same chemical...
