Abstract:
The effect of Na
2O/Al
2O
3 molar ratios(
n) on the structure and properties of borosilicate glass wasteforms was investigated. The structural changes of borosilicate glass wasteforms with different Na
2O/Al
2O
3 molar ratios were characterized by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy(FTIR) analysis, and the chemical durability was measured by using dissolution rate(DR) method and direct reading plasma emission spectroscopy(ICP-OES). The results show that: within the studied composition scope, when
n<1.0, Al exists as [AlO
4] tetrahedron in borosilicate glass wasteforms, but there are large number of triangular [BO
3] existed in its structure; with the increase of Na
2O/Al
2O
3 molar ratio (
n=1.0), the structure stability of the wasteform increase for the transformations of triangular [BO
3] to [BO
4] tetrahedron; however, when the molar ratio of Na
2O/Al
2O
3 continually increase (
n=1.5 or 2.0), the structure of glass wasteforms become poor, because Al content is very few result in too much decreased [AlO
4] content, which plays an important role in influence of the network density at this condition, and excessive alkali metal ions have the effect of broking network in the structure. When Na
2O/Al
2O
3 mole ratio is 1.0, the good structural and chemical stability are obtained. The value of DR for the glass wasteform is 10
-9 g/(cm
2•min) order of magnitude after 56 d at 90℃, and the concentration of ions in leached water is the lowest.