Chemical Thermodynamics of Tin - Volume 12 - OECD Nuclear ...

Preface
This volume is the 12 th in the “Chemical Thermodynamics” series edited and produced
by the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA). It is a critical review of the
thermodynamic properties of tin, its compounds and aqueous complexes, initiated by
the Management Board of the NEA Thermochemical Database Project Phase III (NEA
TDB III). The European members of the TDB Sn Review Team − Wolfgang Voigt
(Freiberg University of Mining and Technology, Germany), Tamás Gajda (University
of Szeged, Hungary) and Heinz Gamsjäger as Chairman (Montanuniversität Leoben,
Austria) − first met at the NEA in Issy-les-Moulineaux (France) in September 2004. The
overseas members − Surendra K. Saxena (Florida International University, Miami,
United States) and James Sangster (Sangster Research Laboratories, Montreal, Canada)
participated in this kickoff meeting via phone and video link. Four subsequent plenary
meetings took place at the NEA in March 2005, October 2005, March 2006 and October
2006. The latter was held in conjunction with the TDB III Executive Group Meeting on
25 October and the TDB III Management Board Meeting on 26-27 October 2006. In
these meetings the Review Team reported that key values on Sn 4+ formation and the
redox couple Sn 4+ /Sn 2+ were lacking. Moreover, essential formation data on Sn(IV)
chlorido and hydroxido complexes were also lacking. Therefore the Review Team
submitted a proposal to the Management Board requesting to fund an experimental
programme to obtain values for the most important critical data, while the already
completed sections dealing with solids and gases were sent to peer review. The
Management Board agreed and the experimental investigation was carried out under the
leadership of Tamás Gajda at the University of Szeged Department of Inorganic and
Analytical Chemistry. From 7 to 10 August 2008 the solution chemistry group
comprising Wolfgang Voigt, Tamás Gajda and Heinz Gamsjäger met at
Montanuniversität Leoben to include the results of the experimental study in the tin
draft. The publication of these results, mandatory by NEA standards for including new
data in chemical thermodynamics volumes, appeared in 2009. Heinz Gamsjäger
presented these results at the meeting of the TDB IV Executive Group on 19 May 2010
in Karlsruhe.
Hans Wanner participated in meetings of the Review Team as the designated
member of the Executive Group until he retired from this position in 2007. At the NEA
Data Bank the responsibility for the overall co-ordination of the project was placed with
Federico Mompean (from its initiation in 2004 to 2007), with Mireille Defranceschi
(2008 to 2010) and Jane Perrone (2011). Jane Perrone was in charge of the preparation
CHEMICAL THERMODYNAMICS OF TIN, ISBN 978-92-64-99206-1, © OECD 2012