Abstract

Bulk oxygen exchange rate kinetics on CeO2 at 1000°C were observed to have a first order dependence on the fraction of reaction remaining and to be independent of oxygen partial pressure, total pressure, particle size, and specific surface area. This suggests that the exchange reaction is dominated by an internal chemical reaction that is occurring throughout the bulk of the material, and not at the material surface. Oxygen exchange rates were limited by this internal chemical reaction for all CeO2 powders studied (15nm to −325mesh), and had a rate constant of 1.19×10−2s−1 with a time to completion of 617s. These results are similar to the exchange rates observed previously on PuO2, suggesting that oxygen exchange on PuO2 may also be dominated by an internal chemical reaction under similar conditions. This work will help guide future experiments on 238PuO2 oxygen exchange reactions.

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