Economic Viability Report for Abyssal Plains Waste Isolation Project.

Abstract

The Department of Defense's Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) has been tasked by the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP) to study environmental viability of the storage of dredged materials, sewage sludge, and municipal incinerator fly ash in the abyssal plains of the ocean floor. Abyssal Plains Waste Isolation (APWl) is the term given by this project to the storage of waste in the abyssal plains. Oceaneering Technologies (OTECH) has been tasked by NRL to assess waste handling technologies regarding engineering feasibility and reliability. This economic viability report estimates both the capital costs and the annual operating costs of technically viable APWl concepts. By estimating these costs, APWl system concepts can be compared to existing isolation methods to examine the overall viability of the APWl approach. In addition, comparisons are made between the APWI system concepts to see if the most economically viable system is evident. BKA

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 27, 1995
Accession Number
ADA292201

Entities

People

  • April L. Marcy
  • J. M. Hightower
  • William R. Richards

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Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Cost Estimates
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Manufacturing
  • Materials
  • Materials Handling
  • Materials Handling Equipment
  • Military Research
  • Naval Architecture
  • Production
  • Production Engineering
  • Remotely Piloted Vehicles
  • Seabed
  • Shipyards
  • Systems Engineering
  • Transport Ships

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  • Environmental Engineering.
  • Life Cycle Cost Analysis
  • Oceanography.