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Hey Guys .I Should Do A Chemistry PROJECT ON THE TOPIC "SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT ".BUT I CAN'T THINK OF ANYTHING ELSE EXCEPT RDUSE REUSE AND RECYCLE.SO IF ANY OF YOU HAVE ANY IDEAS OF MAKING A WORKING MODEL ON THAT TOPIC , REPLY ME AS SOON AS POSSIBLE OR CONTACT ME AT hary812@yahoo.com Thank u

Where's that post on converting turkey guts to biodiesel and water when you need it? Hary812, look back in the forum. I remember reading a post on making gasoline or diesel oil from organic wastes. It just might be right up your alley.

Does anyone recall the title of that thread?

how about converting spent fuel from nuclear plants into inert building materials? not actually difficult in concept -- simply make a "glass" of the radioactive waste.

not a new idea, it's been done before. looks like obsidian only much much heavier. in fact, i use a lump of the stuff as a paperweight & conversation piece. the trick is to make the process economically feasible.

but surprisingly few people have heard of it. might get some bonus "eco-friendly" points for your project.

YAC--
Thanks for your contribution. How about finding a link to a paper or article on the glassification process and posting it as a new topic?

That paperwieght isn't radioactive, is it?

"Amaranth"

I'll look for a link. Hooray for Google.

The lump is pretty much inert. Otherwise, I'd have developed some lumps of my own over the past couple years!

in the meantime, here's another glassification solution for the original poster to consider:

http://picturethis.pnl.gov/picturet.nsf/All/3RJV5A?opendocument

"how about converting spent fuel from nuclear plants into inert building materials? not actually difficult in concept -- simply make a "glass" of the radioactive waste."

We might reuse some materials after they have been "glassified," but I don't think we'll be making "building materials" out of radioative waste. In this case the glassification just makes the waste disposal easier and less hazardous.

1) Shred the input.

2) Magnet to recover ferrous alloys - cheap and easy though the net value is small.

3) Linear induction winding to recover other metal values. Aluminum is big profits; copper is worth the effort.

4) Flotation tanks to recover glass (break-even) and plastics (PET is good money; polyolefins are break-even; you want PVC absolutely excluded because it ruins reprocessing of everything else by its thermal dcomposition).

5) Burn the remains for electrical power to run the faclity and sell any excess as co-generation. Dump the ashes into fertilizer or concrete manufacture.

6) That leaves nothing at the rear for Enviro-whiners to scream about.

http://www.energy.ca.gov/etsr/50096006_CHAP08.PDF
Search for "Occidental Research Corporation" half way in. "Eco-fuel" (garboil) from pyrolyzed cellulostics was an amazing stupid idea - in the lab, in the pilot plant, in the finished facility. Ii was immiscible with fuel oil, it was loaded with allergenic aldehydes, and in the presence of 3% water it irreversibly crosslinked into a solid.

CAN SOMEONE PLEASE HELP ME WITH MY DNA LAB???
PLEAAAAAAAAAASE

Kasania:
We aren't here to do your home work. If there is some topic on DNA that you wish to discuss feel free to post it as a new topic. Otherwise you are off topic.