Instrumentation for studying binder burnout in an immobilized plutonium ceramic wasteform [electronic resource].
- Published
- Washington, D.C. : United States. Dept. of Energy, 2000.
Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy. - Physical Description
- PDF-FILE: 11; SIZE: 2.7 MBYTES pages
- Additional Creators
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, United States. Department of Energy, and United States. Department of Energy. Office of Scientific and Technical Information
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- Summary
- The Plutonium Immobilization Program produces a ceramic wasteform that utilizes organic binders. Several techniques and instruments were developed to study binder burnout on full size ceramic samples in a production environment. This approach provides a method for developing process parameters on production scale to optimize throughput, product quality, offgas behavior, and plant emissions. These instruments allow for offgas analysis, large-scale TGA, product quality observation, and thermal modeling. Using these tools, results from lab-scale techniques such as laser dilametry studies and traditional TGA/DTA analysis can be integrated. Often, the sintering step of a ceramification process is the limiting process step that controls the production throughput. Therefore, optimization of sintering behavior is important for overall process success. Furthermore, the capabilities of this instrumentation allows better understanding of plant emissions of key gases: volatile organic compounds (VOCs), volatile inorganics including some halide compounds, NOₓ, SOₓ, carbon dioxide, and carbon monoxide.
- Report Numbers
- E 1.99:ucrl-jc-137218
ucrl-jc-137218 - Subject(s)
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- Note
- Published through SciTech Connect.
04/21/2000.
"ucrl-jc-137218"
American Ceramic Society Annual Meeting, St. Louis, MO (US), 05/01/2000--05/05/2000.
Mitchell, M; Herman, C; Pugh, D. - Funding Information
- W-7405-ENG-48
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