Objetivo
The project aims to demonstrate the suitability of the High Temperature Oxidation process to remove metallic reusable mercury from hazardous wastes. The project owner foresees a confirmation of an earlier study that the technology can be used to treat a wide variety of mercury containing wastes.
The innovative High Temperature Oxidation process makes it possible to recover mercury from hazardous wastes which are at present being stored in salt mines. The total amount of dutch treatable waste will be between 1000 and 2000 tonnes per year. These waste streams do not only arise in the Netherlands, but they are common wastes coming from internationally applied processes. This emphasizes the international importance of this project.
The demonstration project will be carried out with the use of an installation with a throughput of 25-100 kg of mercury containing waste per hour. The following items are identified to need further attention before the decision can be taken to build a full scale installation:
- The treatability of other hazardous wastes like contaminated soil, sewer sludges, concumer batteries and iron sulphide sludges;
- The feeding system of the wastes;
- The extension of the operation time from several hours to continuous operation;
- The waste water treatment;
- Design of the dust treatment;
- Optimization of the energy balance;
- Engineering of a full scale plant.
The project aims to collect sufficient information on these items to reach the point where a decision on a full scale installation can be taken.
Programa(s)
Convocatoria de propuestas
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DEM - Demonstration contractsCoordinador
3197 KK Rotterdam/Botlek
Países Bajos