Conversion degree and heat transfer in the cold cap and their effect on glass production rate in an electric melter
International journal of applied glass science(2023)
Abstract
A predictive model of melt rate in waste glass vitrification operations is needed to inform melter operations during normal and off-normal operations. This paper describes the development of a model of the cold cap (the reacting melter feed floating on molten glass in a glass melter) that couples heat transfer with the feed-to-glass conversion kinetics. The model was applied to four melter feeds designed for high-level and low-activity nuclear waste feeds using the material properties, either measured or estimated, to obtain temperature and conversion distribution within the cold cap. The cold cap model, when coupled with a computational fluid dynamics model of a Joule-heated glass melter, allows the prediction of the glass production rate and power consumption. The results show reasonable agreement with the melting rates measured during pilot-scale melter tests.
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Key words
batch reactions,heat transfer,modeling,nuclear waste,reaction kinetics
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