Development of New Cationic Exchangers for the Recovery of Uranium (VI) from Concentrated Phosphoric Acid

Separation Science and Technology (Philadelphia)

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 480-486

  Beltrami, Denis ^a,b   Chagnes, Alexandre ^a   Haddad, Mansour ^a   Laureano, Hugo ^c   Mokhtari, Hamid ^b   Courtaud, Bruno ^b   Jugé, Sylvain ^c   Cote, Gérard ^a  

^a PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b AREVA NP   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

Author keywords

BiDiBOPP; Cyanex 301; D2EHDTPA; D2EHPA; extractant; phosphoric acid; solvent extraction; TOPO; uranium

Indexed keywords

BIDIBOPP; CYANEX-301; D2EHDTPA; D2EHPA; EXTRACTANTS; TOPO;

PHOSPHORUS; SOLVENT EXTRACTION; URANIUM; URANIUM COMPOUNDS;

PHOSPHORIC ACID;

EID: 84873835093     PISSN: 01496395     EISSN: 15205754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01496395.2012.703752     Document Type: Article

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