Densification and Shape Change of Calcined High Level Waste During Hot-Isostatic Pressing

T. Burnett, and D. Lower
CH2M-WG Idaho, LLC
The Idaho Cleanup Project at the Idaho National Laboratory
Idaho Falls, ID
发布日期 2011

Hot Isostatic Pressing (HIP) has been selected as a means of treating calcined high level waste (HLW). The process combines high temperature and pressure to densify the HLW in to a mineral similar to the geologic formulation of granite.

This study uses COMSOL to predict densification and shape deformation of a stainless steel can filled with HLW. Two approaches were used to model densification during the HIP process including: development of a volumetric thermal change coefficient implemented through thermal expansion and the development of an ordinary differential equation to approximate densification mechanics.