LR- Liquid Radwaste Flashcards
[LR]
Liquid Radwaste purpose?
Collects, monitors, and recycles/disposes of liquid radwaste
Can process secondary plant demin resin chemical regenerates from [CD] demineralizers
[LS]
What processes borated and tritiated RCS quality water?
Boric Acid Concentrator
[LS]
After [LS] where are liquids sent to next?
[SR] and [RF] for packaging and off-site shipment,
-recycled for plant reuse
-or retained for further processing.
[LS]
Are there off-site release points for [LR]?
No
What sources of liquid are received by the LR system normally and abnormally?
Normal:
-CNTMT, RW, AB, FB
-Decon & laundry facility (Unit 1)
-Radiochemistry labs (CM)
-Solid Radwaste resin transfer/dewatering pump
Abnormal:
-Condensate polishing and blowdown demineralizer regenerant waste
-turbine building sumps
-Aux Steam condensate receiver tank
-Chem. Waste neutralizer tank
What provides power to the LR evaporator MCC? What powers various LR system pump motors, control panels and heat tracing?
NG
NH
What provides cooling to the Evaporator?
[NC] Nuclear Cooling
Located: RW 120’ RW
What are the five sub-systems of the LR system?
TDS
Evaporator
Concentrate Monitor
Recycle Monitor
Chemical Drain
What is the purpose of the LR Holdup tanks?
To allow collection of radioactive liquid waste
[LR]
[LR] Holdup tanks
capacity?
high and low level setpoints?
What protects the inside of the tank from deposition of solids?
31,400 gallons
Hi: 29,500 gallons
Lo: 1000 gallons
[LR]
Hi-Hi level setpoint for the [LR] Holdup tanks?
30,000 gallons
[LR]
What happens if [LR] Holdup tanks lower to lo-lo level (500 gallons)
Holdup pumps trip
and evaporator feed valve closes (LV-202)
Where do the [LR] Holdup tanks vent to?
RW Ventilation
The [LR] Holdup tank overflow directed to?
The other 2 H/U Tanks, before RW sump
[LR] Holdup Pumps purpose?
Powered from?
Transfer waste from TDS holdup tanks to [LR] Evaporator
NH
RW 100’
[LR] Holdup Pumps controls located?
What will trip these pumps?
RW Control Room
-lo-lo level in any TDS holdup tank (trips all pumps)
What is the purpose of the LR Caustic Tank? How is level measured? How is this tank filled and where does it over flow to?
Serves as a storage tank for the caustic (50 weight percent NaOH) used in the LR system
0-47” in a sight glass
truck fill connection on the south exterior wall of radwaste building
neutralizing bed on the 100’
What is the purpose of the LR caustic batch tank? capacity? What protections does this tank have?
Gravity filled from the Caustic storage tank, used to provide caustic to the TDS Holdup Tanks for pH adjustments
25 gallons
heat trace and 25kw heater
How does the Caustic get added to the [LR] TDS Holdup Tanks?
gravity fed from batch tank
RW 120’
What is the purpose of the LR Anti-Foaming Tank? What does it minimize?
Stores anti-foaming suppressants for addition to collected wastes, which contain detergents
bubbling and detergent foaming
What is the purpose of the LR Anti-Foam Metering Pump?
Delivers Anti-foaming storage tank contents to the LR evaporator package
can also align to the TDS tanks, but it is pointless because the anti-foam floats to the top and will never reach the evaporator
What is the capacity of the LR Anti-Foam Storage tank? How is this tank filled? Where are the anti-foam tank and pump located?
110 gallons
hand pumped from a tank and a hose into the storage tank
chemical addition room on the 120’ radwaste building
What kind of pump is the LR Anti-foam Metering pump and when will it trip?
54 gph positive displacement pump
Automatically trips when the anti-foam tank level decreases to 13” (44.7 gallons)
As long as the level remains low, the pump will not start
What is the purpose of the evaporator in the LR system?
Removes water from and increases the concentration of total solids in liquid waste, processed from the TDS tanks.
Concentrated liquid may not be reused like in the BAC due to undesirable contaminants
What is the purpose of the Vapor Body in the LR evaporator package? How are suspended and dissolved solids removed from the vapor prior to leaving the vapor body?
Serves as the primary separation chamber to release vapor from boiling liquid
Contains reflux trays and mesh pad moisture separators near the top to prevent carryover of entrained liquid, suspended solids and undesirable contaminants
reflux trays have fine mist spray nozzles that remove solids from the vapor and mesh pads remove the entrained moisture and contaminants
What is the purpose of the Surface Condenser in the LR evaporator package? Where are the non-condensable gases vent to?
NC flowing through the condenser tubes to condense vaporized liquid waste that enters the shell side
radwaste building exhaust via the vent cooler
What is the purpose of the Reboiler in the LR evaporator package? How does it work?
Improves distillate quality by removing volatile impurities via reheating it
a gas stripping column with perforated plates and a reboiler scrub the distillate as it falls through distillate vaper produced inside the column. distillate gathers in a Seal Pot at the bottom
What is the heat source for the Reboiler in the LR evaporator package?
Auxiliary Steam
What is the purpose of the Distillate cooler in the LR evaporator package?
To cool the evaporator distillate to a temperature below the design temperature of the LR system Adsorption Bed and Mixed-Bed Ion Exchanger resins