Published March 2010 | Version v1
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Removal of plutonium from real time waste using supercritical fluid extraction

  • 1. Fuel Chemistry Division, Chemistry Group, Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam (India)

Description

Supercritical fluid extraction (SFE) technique was carried out for the recovery of plutonium from cellulose waste matrix using supercritical carbon dioxide (SC-CO2) modified with suitable ligands such as octylphenyl N,N-diisobutyl carbamoylmethyl phosphine oxide (φCMPO), tri-n-butyl phosphate (TBP), acetyl acetone, trifluoro acetyl acetone and theonyltrifluoroacetyl acetone (TTA). The maximum plutonium recovery was found to be 99.8% when SC-CO2 modified with CMPO was employed. About 15mg of plutonium was recovered from waste. (author)

Part of:
Proceedings of DAE-BRNS biennial symposium on emerging trends in separation science and technology

Additional details

Publishing Information

Publisher
Bhabha Atomic Research Centre
Imprint Place
Mumbai (India)
ISBN
978-81-8372-055-2
Imprint Title
Proceedings of DAE-BRNS biennial symposium on emerging trends in separation science and technology
Imprint Pagination
677 p.
Journal Page Range
p. 469-470

Conference

Title
4. DAE-BRNS biennial symposium on emerging trends in separation science and technology
Acronym
SESTEC-2010
Dates
1-4 Mar 2010
Place
Kalpakkam (India)

Optional Information

Notes
5 refs., 1 fig., 1 tab.