Process and Measurement Technology Product Line
Product Line Description
The Process and Measurement Technology product line focuses on the testing, evaluation, development and deployment of characterization, retrieval, conversion, separation, immobilization, and process monitoring and control technologies. These technologies and capabilities are provided primarily to DOE, DoD, and industry to solve problems in waste and excess material treatment, pollution prevention (including waste minimization), transformation of biomass and other feedstocks into higher-value products, facility decontamination and decommissioning; and chemical and agricultural processing technologies and capabilities. We also offer a full range of advanced and traditional statistical tools, chemical and instrumental methods, and fluid dynamics technologies that are applied to providing highly defensible answers in establishing the physical and chemical characteristics of materials, process streams, wastes, effluents/emissions, and sites. The product line implements a collection of fundamental science and engineering staff, intellectual property, and laboratory facilities and equipment to evaluate, develop, and deploy technologies and capabilities for our clients' complex processing problems. The product line's distinct technical competence and market discriminator is its ability to integrate the process and measurement sciences into innovative, engineered systems and solutions.
The product offerings that make up this product line are
Retrieval, Treatment, and Disposition of Legacy Materials
- Remote retrieval and handling systems
- Decontamination and decommissioning
- Waste detoxification and immobilization
Sustainable Process and Product Development
- Conversions and separations
- Pollution prevention
- Integrated process design and assessment
- Microchemical systems
Measurement Technology Development and Application
- Process monitoring and control
- Analytical characterization
- Statistical analysis
- Experimental and computational fluid dynamics
- Nuclear and irradiated materials characterization
The PMT product line's primary customers are DOE's Office of Science and Technology (EM-50); DOE's Office of River Protection; Hanford contractors, specifically Fluor Hanford, Bechtel Hanford Inc., CH2MHill Hanford Group, and the waste immobilization development contractor(s); EM Programs at Idaho, Fernald, and Savannah River; DOE Office of Material Disposition (MD); DoD (Air Force, Army, Navy); DOE's Offices of Industrial Technology (OIT) and Fossil Energy (FE), DOE Office of Nuclear Energy (NE); DOE Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management (RW); the chemical processing industry; the production agriculture and food processing industries; and an increasing number of other industrial clients.