Freeze block testing of buried waste lines [electronic resource].
- Published:
- Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy, 1976.
- Physical Description:
- Pages: 28 : digital, PDF file
- Additional Creators:
- United States. Department of Energy. Office of Scientific and Technical Information
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- Restrictions on Access:
- Free-to-read Unrestricted online access
- Summary:
- An investigation was conducted to demonstrate application of freeze blocking in waste transfer lines such that a hydrostatic pressure test can be applied. A shop test was conducted on a 20-foot length, 3-inch schedule 40, carbon steel pipe using a coolant of dry ice and Freon. The positive results from these tests prompted a similar employment of the freeze block method in hydrostatic pressure testing the feed inlet leading to 241-S-101 Waste Tank. This pipeline is a 3-inch schedule 10, stainless steel pipe approximately 800 feet long. The freeze block was formed near the lower end of the pipe as it entered the 101-S Waste Tank and a pressure hold test was applied to this pipeline. This test proved the integrity of the pipeline in question, and demonstrated the validity of freeze blocking an open-ended pipeline which could not be hydrotested in other conventional ways. The field demonstration facility, costing $30,200 was completed late in 1975.
- Report Numbers:
- E 1.99:arh-cd-692
arh-cd-692 - Subject(s):
- Other Subject(s):
- Pipelines
- Testing
- Radioactive Wastes
- Waste Transportation
- Carbon Dioxide
- Carbon Steels
- Cost
- Freezing
- Freons
- Low Temperature
- Pressure Dependence
- Test Facilities
- Transport
- Alloys
- Carbon Compounds
- Carbon Oxides
- Chalcogenides
- Halogenated Aliphatic Hydrocarbons
- Iron Alloys
- Iron Base Alloys
- Management
- Organic Compounds
- Organic Halogen Compounds
- Oxides
- Oxygen Compounds
- Radioactive Materials
- Refrigerants
- Steels
- Waste Management
- Wastes
- Note:
- Published through SciTech Connect.
05/20/1976.
"arh-cd-692"
Robbins, E.D.; Willi, J.C.
Atlantic Richfield Hanford Co., Richland, Wash. (USA) - Funding Information:
- E(45-1)-2130
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