Pollution of the environment due to leakage from waste repositories is a well-known and wide spread problem. Emphasis has therefore been put on design of liners for such repositories, focusing on hydraulic conductivity and its variation with time, liner composition, water content, compaction etc. The paper addresses the hydraulic conductivity of sand/bentonite mixtures, especially the variation of the hydraulic conductivity as a function of bentonite content, compaction and degree of saturation. In order to better understand the variation of the hydraulic conductivity of a sand–bentonite mixture a new parameter k1 has been proposed. The parameter reflects the amount of bentonite per pore volume and can easily be calculated based on the amount of bentonite and the dry density of the soil mixture. Thereby, the hydraulic conductivity can be predicted as a function of different degres of compaction. This method can be used for engineering purposes to predict the hydraulic conductivity at an early stage of a design to get an idea of the required design and hence, cost. 相似文献
Compacted bentonite has been considered as a candidate buffer material in the underground repository for the disposal of high-level radioactive waste. An erosion of bentonite particles caused by a groundwater flow at the interface of a compacted bentonite and a fractured granite was studied experimentally under various geochemical conditions. The experimental results showed that bentonite particles could be eroded from a compacted bentonite buffer by a flowing groundwater depending upon the contact time, the flow rate of the groundwater, and the geochemical parameters of the groundwater such as the pH and ionic strength.
A gel formation of the bentonite was observed to be a dominant process in the erosion of bentonite particles although an intrusion of bentonite into a rock fracture also contributed to the erosion. The concentration of the eroded bentonite particles eroded by a flowing groundwater was increased with an increasing flow rate of the groundwater. It was observed from the experiments that the erosion of the bentonite particles was considerably affected by the ionic strength of a groundwater although the effect of the pH was not great within the studied pH range from 7 to 10. An erosion of the bentonite particles in a natural groundwater was also observed to be considerable and the eroded bentonite particles are expected to be stable at the given groundwater condition.
The erosion of the bentonite particles by a flowing groundwater did not significantly reduce the physical stability and thus the performance of a compacted bentonite buffer. However, it is expected that an erosion of the bentonite particles due to a groundwater flow will generate bentonite particles in a given groundwater condition, which can serve as a source of the colloids facilitating radionuclide migration through rock fractures. 相似文献
为了确认γ辐照对改性钠基膨润土的影响,拓展高放地质处置缓冲材料性能评价范围,以内蒙古高庙子改性钠基膨润土为研究对象,利用红外光谱分析仪、同步热分析仪和X射线衍射仪分析了不同γ辐照剂量(1000、2000、3000、4000和5000 k Gy)对改性钠基膨润土性能和微观结构的影响。结果表明:在5000 k Gy大剂量γ辐照后,高庙子改性钠基膨润土中某些官能团发生了少量的化学转变,耐热性能有所提高,但对钠基膨润土中的层间水和吸附水影响不大;另外其微观结构变化不明显,只是晶胞尺寸有所减小;总体而言,高庙子钠基膨润土在大剂量γ辐照环境中稳定性是良好的。 相似文献
Clay soils, especially clay soils of high or very high swelling potential often present difficulties in construction operations. However, the engineering properties of these clay soils can be enhanced by the addition of cement, thereby producing an improved construction material. Higher strength loss of cement stabilized clay soils after soaking in water is attributed to water absorbing capacity of the clay fraction (e.g. montmorillonite). Kaolinite and illitic soils are largely inert and resist to water penetration. These clays generally develop satisfactory strengths resulting to low strength reduction [Croft, 1967]. The swelling clays such as bentonite soaked in water, due to environmental conditions, result to volume increase causing macro and micro-fracturing in engineering structures. These fractures accelerate water penetration and consequently cause greater strength loss [Sällfors and Öberg-Högsta, 2002]. The water intrusion during soaking creates swelling and disrupts the cement bonds. The development of internal and external force systems in soil mass, due to soaking conditions, establish the initiation of slaking. Internal force system of a stabilized clayey soil consists of the resultant stresses established by the bonding potential of a cementing agent and the swelling potential of a clay fraction. In an effort to study this influence of soaking conditions and final absorbed water content on the stabilization parameters (cement, compaction, curing time), both unconfined compressive strength and slaking (durability) tests were carried out on two different cement stabilized clayey mixtures consisted of active bentonite, kaolin and sand. 相似文献
Within the context of the phase IV (1994–1996) research and development activities at the Grimsel Test Site (GTS), Nagra developed, in collaboration with the Agence Nationale pour la Gestion des Déchets Radioactifs (Andra), an investigation project for the sealing of boreholes drilled from underground. The project had the following goals:
sealing of boreholes drilled from underground facilities with a length of up to 500 m,
sealing of boreholes with mainly irregular shape (e.g. breakouts of borehole wall),
ensuring a hydraulic conductivity of 10−11–10−12 m/s for the seal,
ensuring reliable quality control in routine production.
The new concept developed in this project was to use highly compacted bentonite pellets only. The two techniques tested were
(1)
pneumatic injection of pellets into a borehole using a grain size distribution of 4–10 mm,
(2)
emplacement using a modified core barrel for transport and compaction of the pellets.
Both techniques were tested in situ at the GTS to estimate their performance under realistic field conditions. The swelling pressures were monitored for 4 months after seal emplacement until an almost constant value was attained. Finally the hydraulic and mechanical performance of the seal was tested. It was found that the conductivities measured across the seal were equivalent to the matrix properties of the surrounding rock (2–5 × 10−12 m/s). The hydraulic testing also showed no linear preferential flow. 相似文献