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Analysis for the secondary gamma-ray emission for glasses irradiated with various doses of fast neutron: Case study borate and silicate glasses

  • O.L. Tashlykov;V. Yu. Litovchenko;N.M. Aristov;K.A. Mahmoud
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.55 no.7
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    • pp.2366-2372
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    • 2023
  • Are borate and silicate glasses suitable for working as shieling materials against fast neutrons? To correctly answer the above question, some silicate, and borate-based glasses were fabricated and irradiated with various doses of fast neutrons varied between 1.73 and 12.10 MGy. The color and hardness of the fabricated glasses were affected by the fast neutron fluence where the transparent glasses turned colored as well as the hardness of the fabricated glasses was decreased. The gamma-ray spectrometric analysis shows a high activity concentration produced in the barium borate glasses due to the formation of radioisotopes Ba-131 and Ba-133 reaches to 5.92E+05 Bq and 4.25E+03 Bq, respectively for sample Cd-5 Batch 3. Additionally, the gamma-ray spectrometric analysis for the sodium silicate glasses shows low activity concentrations emitted from isotopes formed due to the activation of Y2O3-associated impurities. These activities are low compared to that emitted by barium borate-based glasses.

Modeling and Optimizing Brightness Development in Peroxide Bleaching of Thermomechanical Pulp

  • Wang, Li-Jun;Park, Kyoung-Hwa;Yoon, Byung-Ho
    • Journal of Korea Technical Association of The Pulp and Paper Industry
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    • v.31 no.5
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    • pp.86-94
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    • 1999
  • Alkaline peroxide bleaching of chemi-mechanical pulp is a very complicated system where various process factors affect the bleacing performance and pulp properties. Traditional onefactor-at a time method is ineffective and costly infinding the optimal bleaching conditions. In this study, statistical experimental design and multiple regression method wre used to investigated the interactions among various bleaching factors and to find out the possbile maximal brightness development during one stage alkaline peroxide bleacing of TMP. The TMP was made from 10% Korean red pine and 90% Korean spruce and had an initial brightness of 54.5% ISO. the TMP was pretreated with EDTA(0.5% on O.D. pulp, 3% pulp consistency, 30$^{\circ}C$ for 60 minutes) and bleached in a 2 L Mark V Quantum Reactor at 750 rmp, 7.5% of bleaching consistency and with 0.05% magnesium sulfate addition. The ranges of chemical factors studied , based on oven-ried pulp, were 1-5% for hydrogen peroxide, 1-4% for sodium hydroxide and 1-4% for sodium silicate. The rages of reaction temperature and time were 50-90$^{\circ}C$ and 40-180minutes respectively. Interactions of hydrogen peroxide with alkali , time with temperature ature, alkali with time and silicate with temperature were found to be significant which means that hydrogen peroxide bleaching will be favored at stable concentration of perhydroxyl ion, relatively short time and low temperature, and high level of silicate. Mathematical model which has good predictability for target brightness in one stage peroxide bleaching can also be established easily. Base ion the model, maximal brightness of 70% ISO was found to at 50$^{\circ}C$ and 50 minutes by chemical additions of 5% for hydrogen peroxide, 3.2-3.4% for sodium hydroxide and 4% for silicate based on O.D. pulp. However, this result might not be suitable for situation where furnishes are different from ours, or different pretreatment is used, or bleaching carried out at different pulp consistency. In these cases it will be good to re-investigate the process by a similar methodology as was used in this study.

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Surface Modification of Iron Oxide Particle by Silica-contained Materials (실리카계 물질에 의한 산화철 입자의 표면개질)

  • Ryu, Beyong-Hwan;Lee, Jung-Min;Koh, Jae-Cheon
    • Applied Chemistry for Engineering
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    • v.8 no.5
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    • pp.830-836
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    • 1997
  • The surface modification of iron oxide particle produced from steel-pickled acid by sodium-contained materials was studied. The molar ratio of $SiO_2$ to $Na_2O$ of sodium silicate was 1, 2, 3.5, respectively. The dispersion stability of iron oxide suspension as functions of amount of silica and pH was evaluated by surface charge and sedimentation velocity of iron oxide particle. Then the amount of sodium silicate was determined to provide a dispersion stability of iron oxide particle above pH 7. Finally, the surface modification of iron oxide particle with sodium silicate as silica-contained materials was done by wet ball milling. In the results of study, the dispersion stability of silica modified iron oxide particle was largely depended on amount of silica and pH together. The untreated iron oxide was unstable at pH 8, i.e. isoelectric point, but, the surface modified iron oxide particle with 0.8wt% silica was stable above pH 5. The dispersion stability was enhanced with 0.2wt% of anionic polyelectrolyte.

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Preparation of porous silica gel powders from sodium silicates

  • 장감용;전영관;임광일;이광희
    • Proceedings of the Korea Association of Crystal Growth Conference
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    • 1996.06b
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    • pp.29-53
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    • 1996
  • 다공성 실리카 게 분말은 저밀도, 고비표면적의 특성을 가지며 물리적, 화학적 성질이 우수하여 필름의 점착방지제, 페인트의 소광제, 맥주의 흡착제, 촉매의 담지체등 산업전반에 걸쳐 여러용도로 사용되고 있다. 이러한 다공성 실리카 겔 분말은 고상법, 기상법, 액상법등으로 제조할 수 있으며, 이 중에서 sodium silicate를 원료로 하는 액상공정은 다공성의 제어가 용이하고, 공정이 간단하며, 고순도의 균질한 실리카를 얻을 수 있는 방법으로 많이 사용되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 액상법(sol-gel method)를 사용하여 점착방지제, 소광제 등으로 사용되는 다공성 실리카 겔 미분말의 개발에 초점을 두어 연구하였다. 그리고, 겔 분말의 다공성 제어를 위하여 공정 각 단계에서의 겔 내부의 구조의 변화에 대한 연구와 함께 수화겔의 숙성이 기공특성에 미치는 영향, 건조조건의 기공특성에 대한 영향 등을 살펴보았다. 다공성 실리카 겔 미분말은 다음과 같은 공정에 의해 제조되었다. sodium silicate를 황산과 반응시켜 겔화하고 추가의 황산을 투입하여 미반응분의 Na를 제거한 후 pH 7이상의 알카리 영역에서 숙성하여 다공성을 지닌 실리카 수화겔을 제조하였다. 수화겔의 탈수, 세척, 건조 공정을 거쳐 건조겔을 제조하고, 1-20$\mu\textrm{m}$의 크기로 분쇄하여 최종 제품을 얻을 수 있었다. 최종 다공성 실리카 겔 분말은 비표면적 200-700$m^2$/g, 기공부피 0.5-2.5cc/g, 평균 입경 3-5$\mu\textrm{m}$, 백색도 95% 이상의 물성을 보였다. sodium silicate와 황산의 겔화 반응에 의해 생성된 수화겔은 수 nm크기의 일차입자들의 연속적인 network로이루어져 있으며, 일차입자크기가 너무 작기 때문에 내부의 기공들은 별로 존재하지 않는 상태이다. 2차 주가황산 투입에 의해 미반응의 알카리 이온들을 중화, 제거시킬 수 있으며, 겔의 다공성을 좌우하는 숙성단계에서 숙성 pH, 온도, 시간등의 인자에 의해 수화겔의 기공특성을 제어할 수 있다. pH 7이상에서 실리카의 용해도가 크고, 용해도의 입자크기 의존성이 크므로, 일자입자는 Ostwald-ripening에 의해 계속 성장할 수 있으며, 이때, 입자의 성장은 숙성 온도와 시간에 의존한다. 탈수, 세척공정에 의해 가용성 염인 Na2SO4를 제거하고, 건조조건을 변화시킴으로써 기공부피를 증가시키는 것이 가능하였으며, Fast drying을 사용하여 점착방지제에 적합한 기공부피를 갖는 실리카 건조겔을 제조할 수 있었다.

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Preparation and Interface Properties of Colloidal Silica (콜로이드 실리카의 제조 및 계면특성)

  • Lee, Han Chul;Kim, Jong Hyub;Chang, Yoon Ho
    • Applied Chemistry for Engineering
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    • v.17 no.4
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    • pp.386-390
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    • 2006
  • Colloidal silica which has high surface area and excellent surface properties are chemically stable inorganic materials and used for various applications in industry. Silica sol was prepared from sodium silicate solution by acid neutralization method and ion exchange treatment to remove sodium ions. Through the experimental analysis for controlling factors of particle growth rate, such as temperature, pH, and aging time, the uniform size distribution of silica sol could be obtained. The size distribution and shape of silica sol was measured by TEM and dynamic light scattering method. Zeta potential change and gelling phenomena of silica sol and its rheological properties also investigated.

Studies on the Bleaching Efficiency in Newsprint Using Formamidine Sulfinic Acid

  • Choi, Won-Jung;Kim, Hyoung-Jin
    • Proceedings of the Korea Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry Conference
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    • 2006.06b
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    • pp.381-386
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    • 2006
  • Many different types of bleaching chemicals and processes have been globally used for deinked pulp. Besides chlorine-free bleaching chemicals, hydrogen peroxide, and sodium dithionite that could be used without restriction for almost all types of fibers, chlorine-containing chemicals such as chlorine dioxide and sodium hypochlorite have also used throughout the world. Even though hydrogen peroxide is commonly used in newsprint, it could not effectively increase brightness. Experimental evaluation on the possibility of using formamidine sulfinic acid (FAS), a reducing agent, for bleaching a wood-containing deinked pulp has been carried out in this study. The effect of bleaching efficiency for FAS on operational conditions and chemical concentrations compaired to hydrogen peroxide in one and two stages was studied. FAS bleaching showed higher brightness at high temperature and low consistency, and vice versa for peroxide one. Bleaching with sodium silicate and DTPA in FAS and peroxide stage showed better results than cases without them. Sodium silicate and chelant seemed minimize the influence of transition metal ions, including manganese and iron ions, which induce both bleaching agents to decompose. As a result, FAS as a reducing agent seems more effective than hydrogen peroxide for increasing brightness and reducing yellowness. FAS and FAS sequence seemed more efficient than the other two stages of bleaching sequences with regard to the best brightness level obtained. When bleaching was conducted with FAS, COD load was just about one-third compared to peroxide, and brightness stability of the bleached pulp appeared better than peroxide after UV light irradiation.

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Property of Concrete Surface layer Using Self-Cleaning Silicate Concrete Impregnant (Self-Cleaning 실리케이트계 표면보호제를 적용한 콘크리트 표층부의 특성)

  • Song, Hun;Lee, Jong-Kyu;Chu, Yong-Sik
    • Journal of the Korean Recycled Construction Resources Institute
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    • v.1 no.3
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    • pp.233-239
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    • 2013
  • This study is interested in manufacturing the self-cleaning silicate concrete surface impregnant including tetra ethyl ortho silicate, lithium silicate for the repair of the exposed concrete surface and the color concrete requiring the advanced function in view of the concrete appearance. The concrete surface layer change and static contact angel was tested for the review of application. The result of this study shows that the effective silicate is tetra ethyl ortho silicate and lithium silicate. The adhesion in tension is satisfied with performance requirement of KS standard but the reinforcement of concrete substrate is slight. So, The self-cleaning silicate concrete impregnant of this study is more desirable for the improvement of durability rather than the reinforcement.

An Experimental Study on the Basic Properties of Penetrating repair material using Silicate-based Inorganic Materials (규산염계 무기 재료를 활용한 침투성 보수재의 기초 특성에 관한 실험적 연구)

  • Ha, Sang-Woo;Oh, Sung-Rok;Choi, Yung-Wang
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.18 no.7
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    • pp.39-45
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    • 2017
  • In this study, permeable repair materials mainly composed of silicate - based inorganic materials(SIM), which are easily available domestically, were prepared as a basic study for the development of permeable repair materials using SIM. SIM were compared and examined for their performance as repair materials by selecting a product group which has many cases of use in foreign countries. The SIM used were mainly composed of sodium, potassium and lithium silicate. Performance evaluation of SIM was performed by absorption and penetration, compression and adhesion, rapid chloride ion penetration, rapid freezing and thawing, and chemical resistance test. According to the test results, SIM showed effective performance in all areas, mainly because SIM permeates into the interior of the capillary and has a dense internal microstructure. Therefore, it can be used variously to improve the durability of concrete based on the results of this experiment.

Enhancement effect of phosphate and silicate on water defluoridation by calcined gypsum

  • Al-Rawajfeh, Aiman Eid;Alrawashdeh, Albara I.;Aldawdeyah, Asma;Hassan, Shorouq;Qarqouda, Ruba
    • Advances in environmental research
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    • v.2 no.1
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    • pp.35-49
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    • 2013
  • Research work on removal of fluoride from water, referred to as water defluoridation, has resulted into the development of a number of technologies over the years but they suffer from either cost or efficiency drawbacks. In this work, enhancement effects of phosphate and silicate on defluoridation of water by low-cost Plaster of Paris (calcined gypsum) were studied. To our knowledge, the influence of silicate on defluoridation was not reported. It was claimed, that the presence of some ions in the treated water samples, was decreasing the fluoride removal since these ions compete the fluoride ions on occupying the available adsorption sites, however, phosphate and silicate ions, from its sodium slats, have enhanced the fluoride % removal, hence, precipitation of calcium-fluoro compounds of these ions can be suggested. Percentage removal of $F^-$ by neat Plaster is 48%, the electrical conductance (EC) curve shows the typical curve of Plaster setting which begins at 20 min and finished at 30 min. The addition of phosphate and silicate ions enhances the removal of fluoride to high extent > 90%. Thermodynamics parameters showed spontaneous fluoride removal by neat Plaster and Plaster-silicate system. The percentage removal with time showed second-order reaction kinetics.