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Impact of carbonation on leaching of constituents from a cementitious waste form for treatment of low activity waste at the DOE Hanford site.

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Carbonation can be a major aging process during disposal of alkaline cementitious waste forms and can impact constituent leaching by changes in material alkalinity, pore structure, and controlling mineral phases.… Click to show full abstract

Carbonation can be a major aging process during disposal of alkaline cementitious waste forms and can impact constituent leaching by changes in material alkalinity, pore structure, and controlling mineral phases. The effect of carbonation on the leaching of major and trace constituents from Cast Stone, a cementitious waste form developed to treat high salt content low activity waste, was studied through a combination of leaching experiments and reactive transport simulations. Diffusive transport of constituents in the waste form was evaluated using reactive transport modeling of diffusion-controlled leaching test results and a geochemical speciation model derived from pH-dependent leaching. Comparisons between Cast Stone materials aged under nitrogen, air, and 2% carbon dioxide in nitrogen showed that carbonation impacts solubility, physical retention and observed diffusivity of major and trace constituents. Carbonation under 2% CO2 decreased the diffusion-controlled leaching of chromium by two orders of magnitude. Modeling results suggest that carbonation may also decrease solubility of technetium while changes to microstructure by carbonation increases effective diffusivity of constituents in Cast Stone.

Keywords: carbonation leaching; carbonation; waste; waste form; cementitious waste

Journal Title: Waste management
Year Published: 2022

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