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Aluminum phosphate ceramics for waste storage

Patent ·
OSTI ID:1133639
The present disclosure describes solid waste forms and methods of processing waste. In one particular implementation, the invention provides a method of processing waste that may be particularly suitable for processing hazardous waste. In this method, a waste component is combined with an aluminum oxide and an acidic phosphate component in a slurry. A molar ratio of aluminum to phosphorus in the slurry is greater than one. Water in the slurry may be evaporated while mixing the slurry at a temperature of about 140-200.degree. C. The mixed slurry may be allowed to cure into a solid waste form. This solid waste form includes an anhydrous aluminum phosphate with at least a residual portion of the waste component bound therein.
Research Organization:
Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
W-31109-ENG-38
Assignee:
CH2M Hill, Inc. (Englewood, CO)
Patent Number(s):
8,742,195
Application Number:
10/547,100
OSTI ID:
1133639
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

References (1)

Chemically Bonded Phosphate Ceramics: II, Warm-Temperature Process for Alumina Ceramics journal November 2003