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The Transformation of Tetrahedral to Octahedral Coordination in Anions of Interest in High-Level Tank Waste


EMSL Project ID
49771

Abstract

We propose to use nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), Raman and Fourier transform-infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy in combination with computational modeling to study the conversion of soluble tetrahedral aluminum species to octahedral coordination in solid precipitates under strongly basic conditions typical of high-level nuclear wastes.

Project Details

Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Start Date
2017-10-01
End Date
2019-09-30
Status
Closed

Team

Principal Investigator

Jian-zhi Hu
Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Co-Investigator(s)

Carolyn Pearce
Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Team Members

Zhangyang Xu
Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Rafal Gorniak
Institution
Washington State University

Anthony James
Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Suyun Wang
Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Hailin Zhang
Institution
Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Yining Wang
Institution
Nanjing University of Science & Technology

Zhu Liu
Institution
Washington State University

Chongqi Chen
Institution
Washington State University

Christina Louie
Institution
Washington State University

Meirong Zong
Institution
Nanjing University

Carlos Garcia-Vargas
Institution
Washington State University

Shuang Li
Institution
Washington State University

Michael Servis
Institution
Washington State University

Wenwen Cui
Institution
Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences

William Smith
Institution
Washington State University

Trenton Graham
Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Maxime Pouvreau
Institution
Washington State University

Ernesto Martinez-Baez
Institution
Washington State University

David Semrouni
Institution
Washington State University

Jennifer Wells
Institution
Washington State University

Phonemany Ounkham
Institution
Washington State University

Lance Edens
Institution
Washington State University

Daniel Pope
Institution
Washington State University

Meng Wang
Institution
Peking University

Alexander McCue
Institution
Washington State University

Nicholas Jaegers
Institution
University of California, Berkeley

Xin Zhang
Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Mateusz Dembowski
Institution
Los Alamos National Laboratory

Tiecheng Zhou
Institution
Washington State University

Micah Prange
Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Xiaosong Li
Institution
University of Washington

Ying Wang
Institution
Southwest Petroleum University

Mary Hu
Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Hongfei Wang
Institution
Fudan University

Aurora Clark
Institution
Washington State University

Andrew Felmy
Institution
Washington State University

Bojana Ginovska
Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Sue Clark
Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Gregory Schenter
Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Zheming Wang
Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Kevin Rosso
Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

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