Research Areas
Treatability Studies
PNNL conducts treatability studies are conducted to help characterize the physical, chemical and microbiological nature of liquid and solid waste streams of interest and devise effective, economical ways to treat and manage such wastes to meet the regulatory criteria for safe disposal and/or reuse. These studies are necessary to determine specific treatment and recycling technologies as well as capital and operating costs. Using experimental and computational approaches in tandem enables PNNL to characterize the quality of waste streams and design processes to effectively treat the waste.