2025 AIChE Annual Meeting

Session: Environmental Advances in Nuclear and Hazardous Waste Processing and Disposal

This session seeks papers in the broad intersecting area of nuclear, environmental, and chemical engineering as applied to nuclear and/or hazardous waste processing and disposal. Examples of general interest include, but are not limited to: intersections between nuclear waste processing and the chemical processes associated with environmental cleanup, the transfer of technology between radioactive and hazardous waste industries, and waste management practices.

Chair

Courtney Bottenus, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Co-Chairs

Amy Westesen, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Kristian Myhre, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Presentations

11:30 AM

(697a) Enabling Direct Feed High-Level Waste Treatment Through In-Tank Blending Strategies
Md Shakibur Rahaman Chowdhury, Phong Huynh, Carolyn A. Burns, Reid Peterson, Richard Daniel

11:48 AM

(697d) Engineering Design of a Multi-Sensor Flow Loop for Waste Processing Applications
Adan Schafer Medina, Heather Felmy, Courtney Hiatt, Stuart Arm, Amanda Lines, Samuel Bryan

12:06 PM

(697b) Enabling Direct Feed High-Level Waste Treatment Through In-Tank Leaching
Md Shakibur Rahaman Chowdhury, Phong Huynh, Carolyn A. Burns, Reid Peterson, Richard Daniel

12:24 PM

(697f) Hanford West Area Tank Treatment Solids Assessment
Amy Westesen, Riane Stene, Austin Bachman, Carolyn A. Burns, Reid Peterson, David Blumenkranz

12:42 PM

(697g) Enabling Hlw Sludge Delivery through in-Tank Processing in the Southeast Quadrant of the Hanford Tank Farms
Reid Peterson, Edgar C. Buck, Richard Daniel, Carolyn Pearce, Amy Westesen, Susan Asmussen, Trent Graham, Aurora Clark

01:00 PM

(697h) Mercury Recovery Challenges and Successes during Processing of High-Level Radioactive Waste in the Defense Waste Processing Facility at the Savannah River Site
Dan Lambert, Nathan Morgan