Rapid remediation using polyurethane foam/resin grout in Malaysia

Evolution of technetium speciation in reducing grout.

Cementitious waste forms (CWFs) are an important component of the strategy to stabilize nuclear waste resulting from plutonium production by the U. S. Department of Energy. Technetium (99Tc) is an abundant fission product of particular concern in CWFs because of the high solubility and mobility of Tc(VII), pertechnetate (TcO4-), the stable form of technetium in aerobic environments. CWFs can mo...

Comparison of Chemical Grout Properties

Chemical grout use began seriously some thirty years ago with the use of only a few types; silicates, acrylamide, epoxy, and some fatty acid derivates. Since then, the kinds of grout have proliferated with some of the originals still there, others dropping out entirely, and still others changing in type. This paper is about the current uses of chemical grouts, the economics of product use, and ...

Rapid Hydrophilization of Model Polyurethane/Urea (PURPEG) Polymer Scaffolds Using Oxygen Plasma Treatment

Polyurethane/urea copolymers based on poly(ethylene glycol) (PURPEG) were exposed to weakly ionized, highly reactive low-pressure oxygen plasma to improve their sorption kinetics. The plasma was sustained with an inductively coupled radiofrequency generator operating at various power levels in either E-mode (up to the forward power of 300 W) or H-mode (above 500 W). The treatments that used H-m...

Plasma Fractionation in Malaysia

GROUT IT E SYNTHESIZED AT ACID pH ~

Ahstract--Mn-substituted iron oxides were synthesized by coprecipitating Fe(NO3)3 and Mn(SO4) solutions with NH4OH, adjusting the suspensions to pH 4 or 6, and then keeping the suspensions at 55~ for 62 days. The Mn mole fraction of the final products ranged from 0 to 0.3. X-ray powder diffraction patterns showed that goethite and hematite formed in each Fe-containing system. Groutite formed in...