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Nonisothermal kinetics of spinel crystallization in a HLW glass

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2011

D. G. Casler
Affiliation:
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99352, [email protected]
P. Hrma
Affiliation:
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99352, [email protected]
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Abstract

Nonisothermal kinetics of spinel crystallization in a high-level waste (HLW) glass was predicted using Mehl-Avrami-Johnson-Kolmogorov equation coefficients from isothermal data. The volume fraction of spinel was determined as a function of time, temperature, and cooling rate. The results were verified experimentally. Also predicted was the spatial distribution of spinel in a HLW glass canister. Finally, a parameter study was performed, and an empirical equation was proposed relating the final spinel volume fraction in glass to dimensionless numbers for cooling rate, phase equilibrium, and crystallization kinetics.

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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1999

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