SRNL filter design reduces waste treatment costs
Tuesday, January 25, 2011 - 11:31
in Earth & Climate
The redesign of a filtration system by the U.S. Department of Energy's Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) is expected to help the DOE Office of Environmental Management drastically reduce cost and infrastructure for the treatment and permanent disposal of its inventory of high level radioactive waste. The U.S. Patent Office has recently allowed a patent on the reconfiguration of a commercial rotary filter, which has also been licensed by the company that produced the original system two important steps in putting this technology into the marketplace for use by other potential customers.