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... at slightly below the boiling temperature of the solution. The resulting hydrolysate at Aberdeen, which will contain thiodiglycol as the primary reaction product, will be treated by activated sludge biodegradation in sequencing batch reactors to oxidize organic constituents prior to discharge to an on-site federally owned wastewater treatment facility.
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... The Army should continue to identify and pursue regulatory approval for waste management facilities to receive off-site shipments of brine from the supercritical water oxidation processing of VX hydrolysate at the Newport Chemical Agent Disposal Facility. However, given the modest cost of the equipment and the significant costs and processing delays that could result if shipping or receiving of the effluent were not allowed or became prohibitively expensive, the capability of processing the brine on site should be maintained.
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... Recommendation 5-3. The criteria for releasing VX hydrolysate to subsequent processing steps at the Newport facility should be based on the 99.9999 percent agent destruction level required by the state of Indiana and an evaluation of worker and public risks associated with releases of agent in hydrolysate equal to or less than this destruction level (i.e., 330 ppb)
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Key Terms

  • agent disposal
  • disposal facility
  • supercritical water
  • water oxidation
  • newport facilities

  • pilot testing
  • processing steps
  • disposal facilities
  • using supercritical
  • newport facility

  • design changes
  • disposal program
  • process designs
  • design package
  • final design

  • overarching issues
  • agent migration
  • public risks
  • agent monitoring
  • organic constituents

  • required detection
  • stockpile disposal
  • newport chemical
  • agent destruction
  • aberdeen chemical

  • chemical stockpile
  • destruction level
  • difficulties arise
  • schedule benefits
  • contingency plan


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