Utilization of dilatometer for characterization of UO2 powders
- 1. Cameco Corp., Innovation & Technology Development - Research Centre, Port Hope, ON (Canada)
Description
Particle size and specific surface area measurements are conventional characterization techniques for ceramic powders to predict sintering behaviour. Dilatometry is one of the most popular techniques in ceramics to study the sintering characteristics for optimization of firing processes. Uranium dioxide (UO2) powders from different sources were characterized by conventional techniques and these characteristics were correlated with sintering behaviour, as measured with a dilatometer. The suitability of dilatometry to correlate the sintering characteristics of UO2 powder with variations in the O/U ratio, particle size and green density was discussed. Explanations of features in the sintering profiles for UO2 powders have been presented. (author)
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Publisher
- The Canadian Inst. of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum
- Imprint Place
- Westmount, Quebec (Canada)
- ISBN
- 1-894475-97-6
- Imprint Title
- Uranium 2010: The Future is U. Proceedings Volume 1 and 2
- Imprint Pagination
- 2 v.
- Journal Page Range
- (v.2) p. 167-176
Conference
- Title
- 3. International Conference on Uranium; 40. Annual Hydrometallurgy Meeting
- Acronym
- Uranium 2010 The Future is U
- Dates
- 15-18 Aug 2010
- Place
- Saskatoon, Saskatchewan (Canada)
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Canada
- Country of Input or Organization
- Canada
- INIS RN
- 48061182
- Subject category
- S11: NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE AND FUEL MATERIALS;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference, Non-conventional Literature
- Descriptors DEI
- CERAMICS; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICLE SIZE CLASSIFIERS; POWDERS; SINTERING; URANIUM DIOXIDE
- Descriptors DEC
- ACTINIDE COMPOUNDS; CHALCOGENIDES; EQUIPMENT; FABRICATION; OXIDES; OXYGEN COMPOUNDS; SIZE; URANIUM COMPOUNDS; URANIUM OXIDES
Optional Information
- Notes
- 12 refs., 4 tabs. , 10 figs.