Alloy 22 (N06022) is the current candidate alloy used to fabricate the external wall of the high-level nuclear waste containers
for the Yucca Mountain repository. It was of interest to study and compare the general and localized corrosion susceptibility
of Alloy 22 in fluoride and chloride solutions at 90 °C. Standard electrochemical tests such as cyclic potentiodynamic polarization,
amperometry, and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy were used. Studied variables included the solution pH and the alloy
microstructure (thermal aging). Results show that Alloy 22 is highly resistant to general corrosion in all the solutions tested.
Thermal aging is not detrimental and even seems to be slightly beneficial for general corrosion at the higher solution pHs.
Pitting corrosion was never observed. Crevice corrosion was found only for high chloride-containing solutions after anodic
polarization. The presence of fluoride ions together with chloride ions seems to increase the susceptibility of Alloy 22 to
crevice corrosion compared to pure chloride solutions.
This article is based on a presentation made in the symposium “Effect of Processing on Materials Properties for Nuclear Waste
Disposition,” November 10–11, 2003, at the TMS Fall meeting in Chicago, Illinois, under the joint auspices of the TMS Corrosion
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In this study the production of extracellular polysaccharides by the non-pathogenic soil bacteria Arthrobacter viscosus has been investigated. Different variables affecting extracellular polysaccharide production such as the carbon source (glucose or xylose), the agitation speed and the pH have been analysed.
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The aim of this work is to provide a high performance air quality simulation using the STEM-II (Sulphur Transport Eulerian Model 2) program, a large-scale pollution modeling application. First, we optimize the sequential program with the aim of increasing data locality. Then, we parallelized the program using OpenMP directives for shared memory systems, and the MPI library for distributed memory machines. Performance results are presented for a SGI O2000 multiprocessor, a Fujitsu AP3000 multicomputer and a Cluster of PCs. Experimental results show that the parallel versions of the code achieve important reductions in the CPU time needed by each simulation. This will allow us to obtain results with adequate speed and reliability for the industrial environment where it is intended to be applied. 相似文献