Accession Number:

ADA327886

Title:

Demonstration of Radio-Frequency Soil Decontamination: KAI Technologies Demonstration (Volume III of III), Part 1, Pages 1-229.

Descriptive Note:

Final rept. Jun 92-Dec 94,

Corporate Author:

HALLIBURTON NUS ENVIRONMENTAL CORP

Personal Author(s):

• Avila, Gilbert G.
• Faust, David L.
• Kasevich, Raymond S.
• Price, Steven L.

Report Date:

1996-12-01

Pagination or Media Count:

239.0

Abstract:

The Air Force Armstrong Laboratory, Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida, has supported the research and development of Radio Frequency Soil Decontamination. Radio frequency soil decontamination is essentially a heat-assisted soil vapor extraction process. Site S-1 at Kelly Air Force Base, Texas, was selected for the demonstration of two patented techniques. The site is a former sump that collected spills and surface runoff from a waste petroleum, oils, and lubricants and solvent storage and transfer area. In 1993, a technique developed by the ITT Research Institute using an array of electrodes placed in the soil was demonstrated. In 1994, a technique developed by KAI Technologies, Inc. using a single applicator placed in a vertical borehole was demonstrated. Approximately 120 tons of soil were heated during each demonstration to a temperature of about 150 degrees Celsius.

Descriptors:

• *DECONTAMINATION
• *RADIOFREQUENCY
• *SOIL REMEDIATION
• BOREHOLES
• ELECTRODES
• SURFACE WATERS
• SOLVENTS
• AIR FORCE FACILITIES
• WASTES
• STORAGE
• OILS
• POLLUTION
• LUBRICANTS
• RUNOFF
• PETROLEUM PRODUCTS

Subject Categories:

• Soil Mechanics
• Logistics, Military Facilities and Supplies
• Solid Wastes and Pollution and Control
• Environmental Health and Safety

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE