Method for the capture and storage of waste
| DWPI Title: Remediation of waste in nuclear industry, involves adsorbing waste material onto metal-organic framework material, and applying pressure to framework material to convert crystalline structure of framework into amorphous structure |
| Abstract: Systems and methods for capturing waste are disclosed. The systems and methods provide for a high level of confinement and long term stability. The systems and methods include adsorbing waste into a metal-organic framework (MOF), and applying pressure to the MOF material's framework to crystallize or make amorphous the MOF material thereby changing the MOF's pore structure and sorption characteristics without collapsing the MOF framework. |
| Use: Remediation of waste in nuclear industry for disposing large quantities of high level radioactive wastes generated during reprocessing of spent power reactor fuel and from nuclear reactor accidents. |
| Advantage: The method enables remediation of waste which provides high level of confinement, and physically entraps gas or molecule with minimal processing without requiring heating, and non-specialized mechanical pressed amorphization. |
| Novelty: Remediation of waste involves adsorbing waste material onto metal-organic framework material, and applying pressure to the framework material to convert crystalline structure of the framework into amorphous structure. |
| Filed: 9/18/2015 |
| Application Number: US14858232A |
| Tech ID: SD 11993.2 |
| This invention was made with Government support under Contract No. DE-NA0003525 awarded by the United States Department of Energy/National Nuclear Security Administration. The Government has certain rights in the invention. |
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