Project Details:

Task Force on Thermodynamic and Chemical Data Base for Hazardous Waste Processing

The objective is to evaluate the basic data (rate coefficients, transport properties, collision cross-sections or interaction potentials, etc.) for processing of hazardous wastes using plasmas. This project will use the expertise of an international group of scientists assembled in a workshop to arrive at a list of data recommended for modeling of waste treatment processes under plasma conditions, and identify the substances where a lack of data exists. The availability of this data base will allow prediction of the effectiveness of suggested plasma waste treatment models at a fraction of the cost of pilot scale experiments. It is clear that introduction of waste processing technologies is a world wide problem requiring the attention of an international scientific organization like IUPAC. IUPAC has recognized this fact and has established waste processing one of the "hot spots" of chemistry. In the proposed effort we address the introduction of a new waste processing technology.

A panel of experts has been assembled including, Prof. J.Heberlein, Dr. J.T. Herron, Dr. D.Green, Prof. M. Kushner, Prof. P.Fauchais, Prof. A. Gleizes, Prof. B. Potapkin, H. Bollman, Prof. H.Wilhelmi, and Dr. H.Matzing. Each participant was assigned a topic for which they were to prepare an analysis of the status of the available data with recommendations for needed work. Two workshops are planned for this year (1998?) to complete the project; one to be held in Paris, September 6, and a second to be held in Gaithersburg, MD later in the year. The results from the two workshops will provide the basis for a final report. As reported in July 1999, most of the technical parts of the project report are complete, and a final report should be issued late 1999.

Project abandoned