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F -- ANALYSIS OF POTENTIAL SURFACE REMOVAL DECONTAMINATION TECHNOLOGIES FOR CONCRETE FLOORS - AN ENGINEERING STUDY SOL HCET009 DUE 013096. POC D. M.A. Ebadian, (305) 348-2569, Joe Boudreaux (305) 348-3727. The Hemispheric Center for Environmental Technology (HCET) at Florida International University (FIU) is seeking qualified suppliers to conduct an engineering study for the comparative analysis of surface removal decontamination technologies for concrete floors. The study is being performed to support the U.S. Department of Energy. The study will be conducted at the campus of FIU in Miami, Florida. Each technology will be tested by removing one inch of concrete from a coated and a noncoated concrete floor. The 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 surrogate includes concrete pad twenty feet by forty feet surrounded by a six inch high dike. Half of this area (twenty feet by twenty feet) will be coated with epoxy urethane. The surrogate will not be radiologically contaminated. The technologies for inclusion in the study are: ultra high pressure water (greater than or equal to 15,000 pounds per square inch (psi)), milling, scabbling, centrifugal shot blasting, and steel grit blasting. 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. Qualified firms shall also state the maximum depth of concrete removal in a single application. 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 Hemispheric Center for Environmental Technology at 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 1/30/96. The letters of qualification will be used to prequalify proposed firms. The RFP will be available to the qualified firms approximately February 15, 1996. (360)

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