COMMISSION ON CHEMICAL KINETICS (I.4)
Number: 140/8/94
Title: Task Force on
Thermodynamic and Chemical Data Base for Hazardous Waste Processing
Coordinator(s):
J.T. Herron and J.
Heberlein
Remarks: Subcommittee
on Plasma Chemistry
Completion Date: 1997
- abandoned
Objective:
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.
Progress:
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
Last update: 6 June
2000
