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Published April 1996 | public
Journal Article

Electrohydraulic destruction of hazardous wastes

Abstract

Much research has been devoted to developing advanced oxidation technologies for destroying hazardous chemical wastes. The fundamental chemistry behind these processes has been studied extensively and is reasonably well understood; however, their scale-up from the bench to the pilot plant or field test is not a trivial exercise. Major engineering challenges exist in designing nonthermal industrial oxidation technologies that are cost-effective, robust, and versatile. One possible approach is to use existing technologies that have proven to be successful in industrial applications. The electrohydraulic discharge (EHD) method is a non-thermal process based on pulsed-power technology. EHD injects energy into an aqueous solution through a plasma channel formed by a high-current/high-voltage electrical discharge between two submersed electrodes. The paper describes system design, degradation experiments to elucidate the oxidation kinetics, EHD-ozone experiments, and energy efficiency.

Additional Information

© 1996 American Chemica1 Society. Financial support from the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA Grant NAV 5HFMN N0001492J1901), the Office of Naval Research, and the Electrical Power Research Institute (EPRI Grant RP 8003-37) is gratefully acknowledged. We would also like to acknowledge the technical assistance of Richard Ayers and Fred Wiley of Pulsed Power Technologies International.

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