Journal
APPLIED CLAY SCIENCE
Volume 121, Issue -, Pages 174-187Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.clay.2015.12.022
Keywords
Barrier clay; Iron/bentonite interaction; Mineralogy; MX80 bentonite; Friedland clay
Funding
- Gesellschaft fur Anlagen- und Reaktorsicherheit (GRS) GmbH [02 E 10538]
- Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (BMWi), Germany
- VNU Scientific Links, Vietnam [QKHCN.15.01]
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Bentonites are suitable candidates as buffer and backfill materials in HLW-repositories. A target of this research is to define the mineralogical alteration of bentonite caused by its interaction with iron powder, which simulates the contact of bentonite with a steel container. Compacted MX80 bentonite and Friedland clay (raw density of 1.6 g/cm(3)) were used as the initial materials for clay/iron interaction experiments (10 wt.% of iron) involving percolation with NaCl or Mg-rich IP21 solution. These experiments were conducted at 25 degrees C, 60 degrees C, and 90 degrees C and a suite of analytical techniques was applied to identify the mineralogical transformations. Smectite was the main phase and was fully expandable in all reaction products, though the octahedral and tetrahedral compositions were altered. Illitization was found as a main process of smectite alteration and was caused by the percolation component of these experiments. Smectitization occurred only when Fe -oxidation was considerable. The alteration of smectite was mainly driven by the high alkaline pH -value resulting from Fe-corrosion. Different interstratified phases like kaolinite-smectite-dioctahedral vermiculite, berthierine-saponite, chlorite-saponite-trioctahedral vermiculite, and cronstedtite-saponite-trioctahedral vermiculite interstratificadons were identified as neo-formed phases which were formed in minor amounts. Cementation of particles by Fe- or Si-precipitation was assumed to reduce swelling pressure and permeability. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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