An inorganic microsphere composite for the selective removal of 137cesium from acidic nuclear waste solutions. 2: Bench-scale column experiments, modeling, and preliminary process design

Solvent Extraction and Ion Exchange

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 219-243

  Tranter, T J ^a   Vereshchagina, T A ^b   Utgikar, V ^c  

^a IDAHO NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

Ammonium molybdophosphate; Cenosphere; Cesium 137; Ion exchange; Microsphere; Nuclear waste

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT ENGINES; ALUMINOSILICATES; AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; CESIUM; COAL COMBUSTION; EFFLUENTS; EXPERIMENTS; ION EXCHANGE; ION EXCHANGERS; IONS; MASS TRANSFER; METAL RECOVERY; MICROSPHERES; MOLYBDENUM; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; POLYVINYL ALCOHOLS; PROCESS ENGINEERING; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; WASTE INCINERATION;

ACIDIC WASTES; AMMONIUM MOLYBDOPHOSPHATE; CENOSPHERE; CESIUM EXCHANGE CAPACITIES; CESIUM-137; COLUMN EFFLUENTS; COLUMN EXPERIMENTS; COLUMN PERFORMANCE; COLUMN TESTS; EQUILIBRIUM VALUES; EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; GOVERNING EQUATIONS; IDAHO NATIONAL LABORATORIES; INORGANIC COMPOSITES; INTRAPARTICLE; KINETIC EXPERIMENTS; MASS TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS; NEW MATERIALS; NUCLEAR WASTE; NUMERICAL ALGORITHMS; NUMERICAL SOLUTIONS; SELECTIVE REMOVALS; SODIUM BEARING WASTES; TANK WASTES;

CESIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 61649110263     PISSN: 07366299     EISSN: 15322262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07366290802674572     Document Type: Article

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