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Dissolution Mechanisms of CaTiO3 - Solution Analysis, Surface Analysis and Electron Microscope Studies Implications for Synroc

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2011

D. K. Pham,
F. B. Neall,
S. Myhra,
R.ST.C Smart and
P. S. Turner
D. K. Pham
Affiliation:
Division of Science and Technology, Griffith University, Nathan, Qld. 4111, Australia.
F. B. Neall
Affiliation:
Division of Science and Technology, Griffith University, Nathan, Qld. 4111, Australia.
S. Myhra
Affiliation:
Division of Science and Technology, Griffith University, Nathan, Qld. 4111, Australia.
R.ST.C Smart
Affiliation:
Division of Science and Technology, Griffith University, Nathan, Qld. 4111, Australia.
P. S. Turner
Affiliation:
Division of Science and Technology, Griffith University, Nathan, Qld. 4111, Australia.
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Abstract

The perovskite CaTiO3 is one of the major phases of the Synroc titanate mineral assemblage. Its chemical durability in an aqueous environment, which is relevant to the Synroc concept, has been investigated by solution analysis, surface analysis and electron microscopy. In general it has been found that dissolution due to base catalyzed hydrolysis is the most significant mechanism of attack; the results suggest that an ion exchange mechanism is confined to the first monolayer. Below 90°C the extent of attack, and release of Ca into solution, is limited by the formation of a titanaceous amorphous layer (” 100A thickness) which imposes a reaction constraint at the film-solid interface. Dissolution may also be constrained by the pH and Ca2+concentration in the bulk liquid. Above 90°C dissolution is relatively less constrained due to instability of the amorphous layer which is replaced by nucleation and epitaxial growth of TiO2 on the dissolving substrate. Thermodynamic stability of CaTiO3 for T< 90°C can easily be engineered into the waste repository, while hydrothermal stability (T > 90°C) is more difficult to achieve.

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