TRU Waste Headspace Gas Characterization

Field Use of Drum Vent System (DVS) and Drum Vent and Purge Filters
Nuclear Filter Technology (NucFil®) has vented and measured headspace hydrogen gas and volatile organic compounds in 11,000 drums of legacy waste stored at the SRS, 450 TRU waste drums at the Nevada Test Site and 135 drums at the Mound Plant.

NucFil® currently has a contract to characterize TRU waste drum headspace gas at the Savannah River Site (SRS) and has designed and built a specialized DVS machine for the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory to support the operations of the Advanced Mixed Waste Treatment Facility.

NucFili's® patented DVS technology utilizes dual Varian Gas Chromatograph / Mass Spectrometers to characterize headspace gas constituents in TRU and TRU mixed waste drums.	The figure above is a radiograph of a NucFil®-072 in a 55-gallon drum at the Nevada Test Site. Radiograpy verifies filter penetrationof the 90-mil liner inside the 55-gallon drum.

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NucFil® Headspace Gas Sampling System | NucFil® Drum Vent and Purge System (DVS)
Measurement of Hydrogen Gas Permeability | Hydrogen Gas Generation Test Canisters
Mobile Inorganic Gas Sampling System (MGSS) | Computer Numerically Controlled Machine Shop
Nuclear Criticality Safe Vacuum | Mobile Drum Vent System