Development of high performance electrolytic solvent extraction method

The potential difference applied between the water and organic layers, which are contacted each other, causes the ions in water layer to move into the organic layer. This research has been started in order to realize an electrolytic solvent extraction method in which such the phenomenon of ions is utilized. We made a thin-layer flow electrolytic cell using the porous teflon tube having fine holes and developed the high performance electrolytic solvent extraction method. This method enables the quantitative analysis of electric quantity of the ions which cannot easily be oxidized and reduced. Furthermore this method is suitable to the rapid remote-determination of the ions contained in the aqueous solution in which nuclear fuels or reactor materials are dissolved. (M.H.)