scholarly journals Small-scale, joule-heated melting of Savannah River Plant waste glass. I. Factors affecting large-scale vitrification tests

1979 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.J. Plodinec ◽  
P.H. Chismar
1981 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerald B. Woolsey ◽  
M. John Plodinec

ABSTRACTVitrification is the reference process for the immobilization of radioactive waste from the production of defense materials at the Savannah River Plant (SRP). Since 1979, a small vitrification facility (1 Ib/hr) has been operated at the Savannah River Laboratory using actual SRP waste. In previous studies. dried waste was fed to this smaller melter. This report discusses direct feeding of actual liquid-waste slurries to the small melter. These liquidfeeding tests demonstrated that addition of premelted glass frit to the waste slurry reduces the amount of material volatilized. Results of these tests are in accord with results of large-scale tests with actual waste.


1982 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard M. Wallace ◽  
George G. Wicks

Studies of the leachability of waste glass have been in progress at Savannah River Laboratory (SRL) for several years. The principal objective of these studies has been to predict the long-term behavior of Savannah River Plant waste glass when stored in a repository. Such predictions can be made from the results of short-term tests only if the mechanisms of waste glass corrosion are understood. Determining the mechanisms of corrosion and developing a predictive model have therefore been a major thrust of our work.


1987 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 135 ◽  
Author(s):  
RB Hacker

Species responses to grazing and environmental factors were studied in an arid halophytic shrubland community in Western Australia. The grazing responses of major shrub species were defined by using reciprocal averaging ordination of botanical data, interpreted in conjunction with a similar ordination of soil chemical properties and measures of soil erosion derived from large-scale aerial photographs. An apparent small-scale interaction between grazing and soil salinity was also defined. Long-term grazing pressure is apparently reduced on localised areas of high salinity. Environmental factors affecting species distribution are complex and appear to include soil salinity, soil cationic balance, geomorphological variation and the influence of cryptogamic crusts on seedling establishment.


Author(s):  
M. D. Dukes ◽  
W. C. Mosley ◽  
W. N. Rankin ◽  
M. H. Tennant ◽  
J. R. Wiley

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (12) ◽  
pp. 3571-3591
Author(s):  
Bartłomiej Szczepan Olek

AbstractConsolidation rate has significant influence on the settlement of structures founded on soft fine-grained soil. This paper presents the results of a series of small-scale and large-scale Rowe cell consolidation tests with pore water pressure measurements to investigate the factors affecting the consolidation process. Permeability and creep/resistance structure factors were considered as the governing factors. Intact and reconstituted marine clay from the Polish Carpathian Foredeep basin as well as clay–sand mixtures was examined in the present study. The fundamental relationship correlating consolidation degrees based on compression and pore water pressure was assessed to indicate the nonlinear soil behaviour. It was observed that the instantaneous consolidation parameters vary as the process progresses. The instantaneous coefficient of consolidation first drastically increases or decreases with increase in the degree of consolidation and stabilises in the middle stage of the consolidation; it then decreases significantly due to viscoplastic effects occurring in the soil structure. Based on the characteristics of the relationship between coefficient of consolidation and degree of dissipation at the base, the consolidation range that complies with theoretical assumptions was established. Furthermore, the influence of coarser fraction in clay–sand mixtures in controlling the consolidation rates is discussed.


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