Phase field-volumetric lattice Boltzmann model of ion uptake in porous nuclear waste form materials under continuous flow
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
- Indiana Univ.-Purdue Univ. Indianapolis (IUPUI), Indianapolis, IN (United States)
- Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) (France); Montpellier Univ. 2 (France)
- Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), Grenoble (France); Univ. of Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble (France)
- Univ. of South Carolina, Columbia, SC (United States)
The flow field within the mesopores of sorbent particles plays a crucial role in radionuclide diffusion and ion uptake kinetics, thus, impacting the overall performance of porous nuclear waste form materials. To fundamentally understand the influence of microstructures and material properties on the radionuclide absorption and retention processes requires a coupled multi-physics model that considers the advection and diffusion within the flow field, the reaction at liquid-solid interfaces, and finally, the solid-state diffusion within a complex nanoporous medium. Here, this study employs the volumetric lattice Boltzmann method (VLBM) to accurately and efficiently calculate the steady state velocity field inside the mesopores of sorbent particles. The obtained velocity field is then utilized to calculate the advection of ions in the steady flow. A phase field (PF) model of ion uptake is used to describe the reaction occurring at the solid-liquid interface and diffusion inside the porous medium. The integrated PF-VLBM model is verified in terms of the mass conservation and numerical efficiency and validated qualitatively with experimental observation data. Then, it is applied to study the influence of thermodynamic and kinetic properties, as well as flow field conditions on the ion uptake kinetics. The numerical results demonstrate that the ion uptake kinetics in porous particles has three distinct stages, which is in agreement with the observations in continuous flow experiments. In the first stage, the kinetics is predominantly controlled by the flow field and ion diffusivity in the liquid phase. The kinetics in the second stage is primarily governed by ion diffusivity in the solid phase. In the third stage the system reaches a dynamic equilibrium with a net zero uptake flux at the interface. It is also found that porous structures significantly affect the efficiency and capacity of ion uptake. The simulation results can help to understand the physics behind the observed ion uptake kinetics in experiments and to facilitate the development of constitutive equations that can account for heterogeneous microstructures in engineering performance codes.
- Research Organization:
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC05-76RL01830; SC0016574
- OSTI ID:
- 2339562
- Alternate ID(s):
- OSTI ID: 2339668
- Report Number(s):
- PNNL-SA-192472; TRN: US2410479
- Journal Information:
- Journal of Nuclear Materials, Vol. 596; ISSN 0022-3115
- Publisher:
- ElsevierCopyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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