The elemental analysis of environmental waste glass and melter feed with XRF spectrometry
- Clemson Univ., SC (United States)
- Westinghouse Savannah River Company, Aiken, SC (United States)
An x-ray fluorescence (XRF) spectrometric method for the simple, rapid, precise, and accurate elemental analysis of Certain model environmental waste glasses has been previously reported. This method has a potentially important application in vitrification process control. In this study, two surrogate environmental waste glasses, made during pilot-scale demonstration tests at Clemson University, were analyzed by both conventional wet chemical methods and by this new XRF method. The two wastestreams examined were derived from wastewater treatment process from the Department of Energy Oak Ridge Reservation and from a nickel plating operation at the Savannah River Plant (SRP). Four glasses were made from this waste with added flux levels of 5, 10, 15, and 20 weight percent NaO{sub 2} and B{sub 2}O{sub 3}. Components of the waste surrogates are listed. The glasses were prepared in two types of pilot-scale melters. One was a high-temperature, joule heated melter and the second was a stirred tank joule heated melter. The resulting disks were analyzed by either XRF or by conventional wet chemical methods. The accuracy of the results from the XRF method was assessed by comparison with the results from a reference method using conventional wet chemical glass dissolution techniques followed by plasma or flame spectrophotometry. Experimental results are given. Excellent agreement was found between the two methods, suggesting that XRF might be a suitable alternative to the slower and more complicated wet chemical method.
- OSTI ID:
- 210224
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-9509139-; TRN: 95:008324-0064
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 7. ACS special symposium: emerging technologies in hazardous waste management, Atlanta, GA (United States), 17-20 Sep 1995; Other Information: PBD: 1995; Related Information: Is Part Of Emerging technologies in hazardous waste management VII; Tedder, D.W. [ed.]; PB: 1352 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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