Ceramics for Environmental and Energy Applications

by Boccaccini, Aldo R.; Singh, Mrityunjay; Marra, James; Dogan, Fatih; Lin, Hua-Tay; Watanabe, Toshiya

• ISBN13: 9780470905470
• ISBN10: 0470905476
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-07-13
• Publisher: Wiley-American Ceramic Society

Summary

This volume is a collection of 17 papers from six symposia held during the 8th Pacific Rim Conference on Ceramic and Glass Technology (PACRIM-8) in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, May 31-June 5, 2009. These symposia include: Glasses and Ceramics for Nuclear and Hazardous Waste Treatment Solid Oxide Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Technology Ceramics for Electric Energy Generation, Storage and Distribution Photocatalytic Materials: Reaction, Processing, and Applications Direct Thermal to Electrical Energy Conversion Materials and ApplicationsPACRIM-8 is the eight in a series of international conferences on emerging ceramic technologies that began in 1993. PACRIM-8 was organized and sponsored by The American Ceramic Society and was endorsed by The Australian Ceramic Society, The Ceramic Society of Japan, The Chinese Ceramic Society, and The Korean Ceramic Society. A total of 862 experts, practitioners, and end users from forty-one countries attended PACRIM-8, making it one of the most successful ceramic science and engineering events in recent years.

Author Biography

Aldo Roberto Boccaccini (born 2 September 1962 in San Rafael, Argentina) is a nuclear engineer and material scientist. He is currently a Professor of Biomaterials and Head of the Institute of Biomaterials at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany.
Boccaccini studied 2 years of electromechanical engineering at Universidad Tecnologica Nacional, in San Rafael, Argentina, and earned his engineering degree in Nuclear Engineering at Instituto Balseiro, S. C. de Bariloche, Argentina in 1987. He then moved to Germany and carried out his doctoral studies at RWTH Aachen, where he earned his doctoral degree (Dr.-Ing) in 1994. He then held postdoctoral positions in the UK at University of Birmingham, School of Metallurgy and Materials and in the USA, University of California, San Diego. In 2000 Boccaccini joined the Department of Materials at Imperial College London [1] (UK) and then returned to Germany in 2007 to complete his Habilitation at Technical University Ilmenau. Since 2009 he is working at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at University of Erlangen-Nuremberg as Chair and Head of the Institute of Biomaterials.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Introduction	p. xi
Glasses and Ceramics for Nuclear and Hazardous Waste Treatment
Development of Glass Compositions to Immobilize Alkali, Alkaline Earth, Lanthanide and Transition Metal Fission Products from Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing	p. 3
Castable Glass and Glass-Ceramics from DC Plasma Treatment of Air Pollution Control Residues	p. 11
XAFS of Pu L Edge in LaBS Glass	p. 17
Phase Formation Studies Using X-Ray Diffraction and Infrared Spectroscopy in the Vitrification of Savannah River Site SB4 HLW Sludge Surrogate with High Iron and Aluminum Contents at High Waste Loadings	p. 25
Development of Waste Forms for Radioactive Iodine	p. 35
CaMOO4 in a Molybdenum Rich Borosilicate Glass-Ceramic: A Spectroscopic Study	p. 43
Glass-Ceramic Stoneware as a Promising Application for Waste Glasses	p. 57
Solid Oxide Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Technology
Low Temperature Hydrogen Release from Borontetrahydride-Sodalite and Its Reloading: Observations in In-situ and Ex-situ TIR Experiments	p. 65
Synthesis and Characterization in the New System Bi2(Al/Ga)4O9 and 18O/16O Exchange Experiments	p. 71
Microstructure of Sm-Doped Ceria Interlayer and the Impedance of LaSrCoFeO3/SDC/LAMOX Half Cell	p. 79
Ceramics For Electric Energy Generation, Storage and Distribution
Environmental Impact Evaluation of Ceramics Using Exergy Analysis	p. 95
The Dynamic Characteristics of Ultrasonic Therapeutic Transducers Using Lead-Free Na0.5K0.5NbO3 Based Ceramics	p. 105
Direct In-Situ Growth of Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes on Silicon Carbide Particles as a Precursor for Fabricating Silicon Carbide-Carbon Nanotube Composites	p. 117
Photocatalytic Materials
Effect of Functional Coatings on Topographical Properties of Glass	p. 131
Skin Damage by Different Shapes of Photocatalyst Nanoparticles	p. 141
Characterization of Crystallized TiO2 Film by Post Plasma Treatment	p. 149
Direct Thermal to Electrical Energy Conversion Materials
Thermoelectric Properties of Oxygen Deficient La2-xSrxCuO4-¿ Ceramics	p. 163
Author Index	p. 171
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