Radioactive, Hazardous, and Mixed Waste Treatment
Fluid Tech's patented solidification products are used to treat liquid, sludge, and organic mixture waste streams. The products are licensed at commercial waste facilities and are being used at most US Department of Energy facilities. Our products work with minimal waste expansion resulting in a lower disposal cost and liability.
Benefits of Using Our Products
Volumetric Efficiency
Typical volume expansions with FT products run between 5% and 20%. Corresponding expansions with cement and/or pozzolanic treatments run between 50% and 125%. This has the effect of greatly affecting the most expensive cost element in the whole process - namely, final disposal. For example, between 45 and 48 gallons of waste can be solidified by FT products, with room to spare, in a 55-gallon drum.
Retenton of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC)
Cementitious and/or pozzolanic treatment reactions are strongly exothermic. Temperature rises of 24°C have been observed during treatment mixing. Under these conditions VOC's (if present) tend to be "cooked-out" into the atmosphere. If not confined, collected, and treated, they can be a source of regulatory embarrassment. FT products, on the other hand, produce temperature rises on the order of 2°C to 4°C, thus substantially reducing this "cook-out" phenomenon.
Leaching Resistance
The ability of a treated waste to withstand groundwater attack (assumed to be acid) is measured for radioactive wastes by Test ANS/ANSI 16.1; for chemically hazardous wastes by the EPA TCLP (40 CFR Part 261, Appendix II); and, for mixed wastes, by both. Fluid Tech products have laboratory proven results in solidifying and chemically stabilizing a wide variety of pollutants and matrices.
Simultaneous Stabilization of Both Inorganic (Heavy Metal) and Organic Toxins
Wastes (soils in particular) often contain both heavy metals and toxic organic compounds. Cement-based stabilization can capture the heavy metals, but will not stabilize organic toxins. A separate operation would thus be required (such as thermal treatment) to deal with the organics. With Fluid Tech products, both the metals and the organics often can simultaneously be stabilized in a single treatment.