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4 Systemization of the Supercritical Water Oxidation System with the Water Recovery System
Pages 33-38

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... ; and consideration of the findings and recommendations of the •  torage tanks used to hold RO permeate for use in S WRS committee. To do this, the chapter first describes the periodically cleaning the RO membranes.
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... The WRS committee's specific concern was that the media filtration system would Key Concerns be rapidly overloaded with incoming solids, particularly in the case of H hydrolysates, which are expected to have very The findings and recommendations of the WRS com high iron particle content in SCWO effluents. Any overload mittee raised several concerns in three main areas: pretreat and shutdown of the pretreatment system would have a catament, the RO membranes, and the materials of construction.
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... filtration, which would completely clarify WRS feed water without the use of coagulants and with a smaller footprint. RO Membranes The WRS committee concluded that membrane fouling would not be a significant problem if the pretreatment steps In response to the WRS committee's concerns, BGare effective in removing suspended solids from the efflu- CAPP has indicated that the RO membranes will be stored ents to be passed through the RO membranes and also that, according to manufacturer recommendations and that adgiven other feed water quality indicators, the product water equate replacement membranes will be stored on-site at all recovery could exceed the target of 70 percent.
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... Recommendation 4-2. Blue Grass Chemical Agent Destruc- INTEGRATED SCWO AND WRS OPERATIONS tion Pilot Plant staff should optimize permeate generation to The committee noted that SCWO rinse water during match supercritical water oxidation system quench demand.
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... Richmond, Ky.: Blue Grass Chemical Agent considered in the WRS report and could cause more rapid Destruction Pilot Plant project office. degradation of RO membranes than envisioned in the WRS BPBGT.
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  • chemical agent
  • pilot plant

  • water recovery
  • supercritical water
  • water oxidation
  • destruction pilot
  • quench water

  • plant project
  • agent destruction
  • scwo process
  • reverse osmosis
  • process flow

  • flow diagram
  • scwo quench
  • bgcapp wrs
  • effluent tanks
  • project office

  • effluent tank
  • media filtration
  • feed water
  • integrated scwo
  • blowdown water

  • scwo effluents
  • water directly
  • water quality
  • product water
  • recovered water


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