DEVELOPMENT OF A ONE STEP （一步的发展）.pdf

WM99 CONFERENCE, FEBRUARY 28 - MARCH 4, 1999 DEVELOPMENT OF A ONE STEP DECONTAMINATION PROCESS FOR OILS CONTAINING BOTH PCBs AND RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION J. Krasznai, J. Janis and R. Cabanus Process Technologies Department Ontario Hydro Technologies ABSTRACT It is inevitable that lubricating, hydraulic and vacuum pump oil used in process industries become contaminated with process fluids and piping system corrosion products. When the process industry is associated with nuclear power production, the contaminants can also be radioactive. Good waste segregation practices are essential to keep certain hazardous contaminants such as PCB containing oils from mixing with radioactive waste oil. In the past these practices were not adequately followed and consequently Ontario Hydro has accumulated 3 over the past 25 years of operations approximately 3m of lubricating oil that is both radioactive (194pCi/kg beta/gamma activity, tritium2uCi/kg) and contains 50ppm of PCB contamination. Commercial waste disposal options exist for radioactive oil containing activity and 2ppm PCB. They also exist for insulating oils containing 50ppm PCB and no radioactivity. However for this mixed waste there are no available methods unless the waste oil is first treated to remove either the PCB or the radioactive contamination. Ontario Hydro has decontaminated many thousands of liters of transformer insulating oil contaminated with PCBs over the past 10 years using metallic sodium to dechlorinate PCBs in insulating oil. Ontario Hydro Technologies has applied this technology as a potenti