Abstract
Abstract. Part of the process to ensure the safety of radioactive waste disposal is the predictive modeling of the solubility of all relevant toxic components in a complex aqueous solution. To ensure the reliability of thermodynamic equilibrium modeling as well as to facilitate the comparison of such calculations done by different institutions, it is necessary to create a mutually accepted thermodynamic reference database. To meet this demand several institutions in Germany joined efforts and created THEREDA (Moog et al., 2015). THEREDA is a suite of programs at the base of which resides a relational databank. Special emphasis is put on thermodynamic data along with suitable Pitzer coefficients, which enable the calculation of solubilities in high-saline solutions. Registered users may either download single thermodynamic data or ready-to-use parameter files for the geochemical speciation codes PHREEQC, Geochemist's Workbench, CHEMAPP, or TOUGHREACT. Data can also be downloaded in a generic JSON format to enable the import into other codes. The database can be accessed via the world wide web: http://www.thereda.de (last access: 1 November 2021). Prior to release, the released part of the database is subjected to many tests. Results are compared to results from earlier releases and among the different codes. This is to ensure that by additions of new and modification of existing data no adverse side effects on calculations are caused. Furthermore, our website offers an increasing number of examples for applications, including graphical representation, which can be filtered by components of the calculated system.
Highlights
Part of the process to ensure the safety of radioactive waste disposal is the predictive modeling of the solubility of all relevant toxic components
facilitate the comparison of such calculations done by different institutions
THEREDA is a suite of programs at the base
Summary
Teil des Prozesses zur Gewährleistung der Sicherheit der Entsorgung radioaktiver Abfälle ist die vorausschauende Modellierung der Löslichkeit aller relevanten toxischen Komponenten in einer komplexen wässrigen Lösung. Um die Zuverlässigkeit der thermodynamischen Gleichgewichtsmodellierung sicherzustellen und den Vergleich solcher Berechnungen verschiedener Institutionen zu erleichtern, ist es notwendig, eine allgemein akzeptierte thermodynamische Referenzdatenbank zu schaffen. Um diese Anforderung zu erfüllen, haben sich mehrere Institutionen in Deutschland zusammengeschlossen und THEREDA ins Leben gerufen (Moog et al, 2015).
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