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BOA: Pipe Asbestos Insulation Abatement Robot System

Hagen Schempf
Conference Paper, Proceedings of International Conference on Nuclear and Hazardous Waste Management (SPECTRUM '96), August, 1996

Abstract

The BOA system is a mobile pipe-external robotic crawler used to remotely strip and bag asbestos-containing lagging and insulation materials (ACLIM) from various diameter pipes in (primarily) industrial installations. Steam and process lines within the DOE weapons complex warrant the use of a remote device due to the high labor costs and high level of radioactive contamination, making manual removal extremely costly and highly inefficient. Currently targeted facilities for demonstration and remediation are Fernald in Ohio and Oak Ridge in Tennessee.

BibTeX

@conference{Schempf-1996-14187,
author = {Hagen Schempf},
title = {BOA: Pipe Asbestos Insulation Abatement Robot System},
booktitle = {Proceedings of International Conference on Nuclear and Hazardous Waste Management (SPECTRUM '96)},
year = {1996},
month = {August},
}