Open AccessAcoustic imaging of underground storage tank wastes: A feasibility study. Final report
Author(s) -
Roger M. Turpening,
Zhenya Zhu,
C. Caravana,
J. Matarese,
Walter R. Turpening
Publication year - 1995
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
DOI - 10.2172/206517
Subject(s) - environmental science , underground storage tank , waste management , storage tank , reservation , petroleum engineering , engineering , computer science , computer network
The objectives for this underground storage tank (UST) imaging investigation are: (1) to assess the feasibility of using acoustic methods in UST wastes, if shown to be feasible, develop and assess imaging strategies; (2) to assess the validity of using chemical simulants for the development of acoustic methods and equipment. This investigation examined the velocity of surrogates, both salt cake and sludge surrogates. In addition collected seismic cross well data in a real tank (114-TX) on the Hanford Reservation. Lastly, drawing on the knowledge of the simulants and the estimates of the velocities of the waste in tank 114-TX the authors generated a hypothetical model of waste in a tank and showed that non-linear travel time tomographic imaging would faithfully image that stratigraphy