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F -- ANALYSIS OF POTENTIAL SURFACE BLASTING DECONTAMINATION TECHNOLOGIES FOR STRUCTURAL STEEL- AN ENGINEERING STUDY Sol. F95P133236. Due 041795. POC: Dr. M.A. Ebadian, (305) 348-2569. Fernald Environmental Restoration Management Corporation (FERMCO) and Florida International University (FIU) are seeking qualified suppliers to conduct an engineering study for the comparative analysis of surface blasting decontamination technologies for structural steel. The study is being performed to support the environmental restoration of the U.S. Department of Energy Fernald Environmental Management Project in Fernald, Ohio. The study will be conducted at the campus of FIU in Miami, Florida. Each technology will be tested a minimum of four hours of actual operating time for each surrogate. This operating time will provide sufficient time to collect the operational and safety information required to evaluate each technology. Additional data will be collected on the capital costs, maintenance costs, and equipment staging/destaging costs. The four surrogates include: painted I-beams, painted plate, rusted I-beams and rusted steel plate. The surrogates will not be radiologically contaminated. The technologies for inclusion in the study are: ultra high pressure water (greater than or equal to 10,000 pounds per square inch (psi), high pressure water (less than 10,000 psi), carbon dioxide pellets, sponge, steel shot, ice, and plastic. No other technologies will be tested as part of this study. The qualified suppliers will be asked to optimize the operation of the technology as it is applied to each surrogate. The qualified firms shall have five years minimum experience in nuclear decontamination and two years minimum operations experience with the given technology. The qualified firms are to provide references of nuclear decontamination jobs completed. Interested firms should send a Letter of Qualification stating how the firm meets the minimum requirements, including address, contact, telephone and fax numbers to the attention of Florida International University, Attention Dr. M.A. Ebadian, Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering and Design University Park, Miami, Florida 33199 no later than 03/08/95. The letters of qualification will be used to prequalify proposed firms. The request for proposal (RFP) will only be sent to the prequalified firms. The RFP will be available to the qualified firms approximately March 17, 1995. (048)

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