Open AccessHydrogen Concentration in the Inner-Most Container within a Pencil Tank Overpack Packaged in a Standard Waste Box Package
Author(s) -
R.M. Marusich
Publication year - 2012
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
DOI - 10.2172/1092546
Subject(s) - container (type theory) , hydrogen , pencil (optics) , nuclear engineering , diffusion , volume (thermodynamics) , waste management , environmental science , mechanics , engineering , chemistry , thermodynamics , mechanical engineering , physics , organic chemistry
A set of steady state diffusion flow equations, for the hydrogen diffusion from one bag to the next bag (or one plastic waste container to another), within a set of nested waste bags (or nested waste containers), are developed and presented. The input data is then presented and justified. Inputting the data for each volume and solving these equations yields the steady state hydrogen concentration in each volume. The input data (permeability of the bag surface and closure, dimensions and hydrogen generation rate) and equations are analyzed to obtain the hydrogen concentrations in the innermost container for a set of containers which are analyzed for the TRUCON code for the general waste containers and the TRUCON code for the Pencil Tank Overpacks (PTO) in a Standard Waste Box (SWB)