Abstract The Hanford site in Washington State houses~ 56 million gallons of radioactive
wastes stored in 177 underground tanks. The waste must be immobilized and permanently …

As the world races toward its urban future, the quantity of wastes, one of the vital by-products
of an enhancement in the standards of living, is exponentially rising. The treatment of wastes …

A set of thermodynamic models is presented that, for the first time, allows partial melting
equilibria to be calculated for metabasic rocks. The models consist of new activity …

Materials in a nuclear environment are exposed to extreme conditions of radiation,
temperature and/or corrosion, and in many cases the combination of these makes the …

The rice husk is the outer covering of a rice kernel and protects the inner ingredients from
external attack by insects and bacteria. To perform this function while ventilating air and …

Vitrification is widely accepted as the most safe process for treating hazardous wastes and
converting them into leach-resistant materials. In this paper a review of the current and …

Utilization of biomass either as a renewable energy source or for the generation of biogenic
materials has received considerable interest during the past years. In the case of rice husk …

Rice husks and straw, containing 70–75mass% organics and 15–20mass% amorphous
silica (SiO2), are representative non-eatable biomasses. After the use of the organic …

Among the most important adjustable compositional variables in controlling glass and glass-
melt properties are the relative proportions of network modifiers with varying cation field …

Computerized thermodynamic databases for solid and liquid steel, slags and solid oxide
solutions, for large numbers of components, have been developed over the last three …