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  • Chemical Engineering
  • Nuclear Waste Management

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  • Waste vitrification is key for immobilizing high-level radioactive waste.
  • The cold cap, a reacting layer of feed on molten glass, controls vitrification kinetics.
  • Understanding the cold cap's internal temperature is crucial for process control.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To experimentally determine the temperature distribution within the cold cap during waste vitrification.
  • To validate a mathematical cold-cap model used for predicting glass production rates.

Main Methods:

  • Developed an indirect method using microstructural analysis of a simulated cold cap.
  • Employed optical microscopy, scanning electron microscopy, energy dispersive spectroscopy, and X-ray diffraction.
  • Correlated observed microstructures with heat-treated samples at known temperatures to infer temperature profiles.

Main Results:

  • Successfully mapped the temperature distribution within the cold cap.
  • The experimental temperature profile was compared to a simulated profile from a cold-cap model.
  • Provided a method for indirect temperature measurement in challenging environments.

Conclusions:

  • The experimental temperature distribution provides valuable insights into cold cap behavior.
  • This data can refine waste vitrification models and improve melter operational efficiency.
  • The indirect microstructural analysis method is effective for determining temperature fields in situ.