Tracer diffusion in sintered stainless steel filters: Measurement of effective diffusion coefficients and implications for diffusion studies with compacted clays

Clays and Clay Minerals

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 677-685

  Glaus, Martin A ^a   Rossé, Roger ^a   van Loon, Luc R ^a   Yaroshchuk, Andriy E ^b  

^a PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Clay; Diffusion; Filter; Mass transfer; Optimization; Porous media

Indexed keywords

BEFORE AND AFTER; BULK WATER; CLAYSTONES; COMPACTED CLAYS; COMPACTED SWELLING CLAY; DESIGN AND OPTIMIZATION; DIFFUSION EXPERIMENTS; DIFFUSION FILTER; DIFFUSION PARAMETERS; DIFFUSION PROPERTIES; DIFFUSION STUDIES; DIFFUSIVE RESISTANCE; EFFECTIVE DIFFUSION COEFFICIENTS; EXPERIMENTAL SETUP; FIELD SCALE; IN-DIFFUSION; INTEGRATIVE ASSESSMENT; MOLECULAR DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; POROUS FILTERS; POROUS MEDIA; RULE OF THUMB; SINTERED STAINLESS STEEL; STANDARD UNCERTAINTY; TRACER DIFFUSION;

CESIUM; CLAY MINERALS; CORROSION RESISTANT ALLOYS; EXPERIMENTS; FILTRATION; OPTIMIZATION; POROUS MATERIALS; SILICATE MINERALS; SINTERING; SODIUM; STAINLESS STEEL; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

DIFFUSION;

CLAY; DIFFUSION; FILTER; MASS TRANSFER; OPTIMIZATION; POROUS MEDIUM; STEEL; TRACER;

EID: 67650942260     PISSN: 00098604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1346/CCMN.2008.0560608     Document Type: Article

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