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... Army Element, Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives 5183 Blackhawk Road Building E4585, Room 1 Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD 21010-5424 Re: The Blue Grass Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plant's Water Recovery System Dear Mr. Whyne: At your request, the National Research Council of the National Academies established the Committee to Review the Water Recovery System for the Blue Grass Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plant (BGCAPP)
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... The committee also took the following limitations into account during its work:  The footprint for the RO system in the building is limited by the present design;  The BGCAPP design is complete and construction is underway, making significant changes to the design challenging;  This RO system will only be operational for 3 to 5 years, until all the munitions are destroyed and the resulting hydrolysate has been treated; and  Any modifications to the design will necessitate amendments to the present Resource Conservation and Recovery Act permits, which govern plant operations, and will require negotiations with the Kentucky Department for Environmental Protection. The study's scope is defined to encompass operations that begin with the arrival of SCWO effluent and blowdown waters at the WRS for treatment and end with the RO system effluents leaving the WRS to be stored in tanks.
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... The committee discusses the design of these tanks vis-à-vis providing the maximum opportunity for settling to occur, and suggests a possible way of compensating for the deletion of the originally planned clarifier by using the SCWO effluent storage tanks. Given the uncertainty about the composition of the effluents that will enter the pretreatment system, and given the results of SCWO tests using blended actual agent and energetics hydrolysates, the committee is concerned about the planned media filtration system's being rapidly overloaded with incoming solids.
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... Sincerely, Robert A Beaudet, Chair Committee to Review the Water Recovery System for the Blue Grass Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plant Attachments A Statement of Task B Abbreviations and Acronyms C Committee to Review the Water Recovery System for the Blue Grass Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plant D Biographies of Committee Members E Acknowledgment of Reviewers -4
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Key Terms

  • chemical agent
  • agent destruction
  • blue grass
  • destruction pilot
  • media filtration

  • scwo effluent
  • grass chemical
  • bgcapp wrs
  • effluent streams
  • pilot plant

  • water treatment
  • scwo effluents
  • bgcapp staff
  • effluent storage
  • reverse osmosis

  • service environment
  • pretreatment steps
  • storage tanks
  • committee discusses
  • scwo process

  • supercritical water
  • blended scwo
  • scwo tests
  • process water
  • committee commends

  • committee addresses
  • recovered water
  • committee agreed
  • quench water
  • committee membership


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