Use of E-Beams to Treat Waste Water May 17 th , 2018 Fermi National - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

• Dr. Charlie Cooper

Illinois Accelerator Research Center

Use of E-Beams to Treat Waste Water

May 17th, 2018 Fermi National Accelerator Lab

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technologies.

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Background, Illinois Accelerator Research Center

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• At Fermilab particle accelerators are a fundamental tool used

in discovery science

• In industry over 30,000 accelerators operating worldwide,

electron beam accelerators have over $2 B/yr in sales, touch more than $ 500 B/yr in products

Background – Electron Beam Accelerators

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Compact Accelerator for Pavement

• High power and good penetration depth allow for

rapid deployment of new pavement

• Enables use of new types of pavement materials

that are more resilient to wear than asphalt

• Can be used for applications like military

runways, specialty coatings, and normal roadways

• Penetration depth allows for cold repairs
• U.S. Patent #9,186,645 & 9,340,931

1 cm 2 cm

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Background – Electron Beam Treatment of Water

• Simultaneously acts on contaminants

while generating oxidizing and reducing radicals from the water

• Removal of toxic chemicals not removed

in conventional domestic water treatment

• Pharmaceuticals
• Agricultural run off
• Fuel additives (MTBE)
• PCBs
• PFAS/PFOA - perfluorinated

compounds

• Reduction in pathogens
• No toxic residuals (no secondary waste

generation)

H2O

Electron Beam

OH-, H+, e-aq, H2, H2O2

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 Experiment A

MTBE TCE PCE Benzene Toluene E-Benzene

• -Xylene

CHCL3 EDB NDMA Atrazine Simazine

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*William J. Cooper, Dept. of Civil and Env. Engineering, UC, Irvine

Other Contaminants

Li Wang et. al, “Electron beam treatment for potable water reuse: Removal of bromate and perfluorooctanoic acid”, Chem Eng J, 302 (2016)

Concentrations of PCBs according to the adsorbed dose. Concentrations of perfluorooctanoic acid according to the adsorbed dose and Nitric concentrations

I.H Jung et. al, Transactions on Ecology and the Environment, “Destruction of PCBs in transformer

• il by an E-beam”, vol 109, 208

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• DOE/Army Funding paying for design and development of

novel, energy efficient accelerators for water treatment.

E-Beam Work on Water at Fermi – New Accelerators

Currently we are integrating multiple new technologies to create a novel electron accelerator:

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Report:http://lss.fnal.gov/archive/tes t-fn/1000/fermilab-fn-1055-di.pdf

• Compact\Portable
• High Power\High Throughput
• High Reliability\24-7 Operation
• Energy Efficient\Reduced

Operating Costs

E-Beam Work on Water at Fermi/MWRD of Chicago

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Locations for EB Treatment

A B D E C

• MWRD of Chicago first partner in water sector
• Also working with other municipalities and military

applications

• Starting to get into some industrial applications
• Hosted NSF funded workshop in second week of May 2018
• n using E-beams to treat waste water and solids.

– Good turn out from Municipalities, Industry, Government and Academia – Discussion focused on getting electron beam technology to market with sections on emerging contaminants, economics, new technology and barriers to implementation – Report forthcoming

E-Beam Work on Water at Fermi

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Proof of Principal Work at Fermi

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A2D2 Developmental Accelerator.

• We are concurrently developing

applications for compact accelerator.

• We routinely receive samples to treat via

electron beam from partners.

Demonstration: Municipal Waste Water

• Miami, Florida treatment

facility

• 150 GPM
• Effective in disinfecting and

removing organic waste from municipal waste water

• Treatment cost estimated

at 1.5-2 cents/gal in 1995

• 99.9 percent of sludge

bacteria was killed via electron beam treatment.

*CN Kurucz et al., “The Miami electron beam research facility: a large scale waste water treatment application”, Radiat. Phys. Chem. Vol. 45, pp299-308 (1995)

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Demonstration: Textile Wastewater Treatment

• Treatment of 1000 m3/day

(180 gpm) of water from textile dyeing process

• Showed significant decrease

in TOC, CODCr and BOD5(30-40% increased removal eff.)

• Based of earlier success

10,000 m3/day plant constructed for $4M US in 2005

• Operational cost measured

to be 0.11 cents/gal.

B Han et al., “Operation of industrial-scale electron beam wastewater treatment plant”, Rad. Phy. Chem. 81, p1475-1478 (2012)

Interaction area of water and beam (beam on to the right)

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Cost

• Is dependent on what you are

treating and at what dose.

• Economic study presented at

workshop by Dan Meeroff, FAU

– Waste Water (@20 kGy)

• $5-6/kgal ($2-4/kgal Conv)

– Biosolids(20 kGy)

• $160-240/DT($60-90/DT Conv)

1 Gy = 1Gray = joule/kilogram

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