Direct Selective Extraction of Actinides (III) from PUREX Raffinate using a Mixture of CyMe4BTBP and TODGA as 1-cycle SANEX Solvent Part III: Demonstration of a Laboratory-Scale Counter-Current Centrifugal Contactor Process

Solvent Extraction and Ion Exchange

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 519-537

  Wilden, Andreas ^a   Modolo, Giuseppe ^a   Schreinemachers, Christian ^a   Sadowski, Fabian ^a   Lange, Steve ^a   Sypula, Michal ^a   Magnusson, Daniel ^b   Geist, Andreas ^b   Lewis, Frank W ^c   Harwood, Laurence M ^c   Hudson, Michael J ^c  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

americium; curium; CyMe4BTBP; SANEX; solvent extraction process; TODGA

Indexed keywords

CENTRIFUGAL CONTACTOR; CYME4BTBP; SANEX; SELECTIVE EXTRACTION; SELECTIVE SEPARATION; SOLVENT-EXTRACTION PROCESS; STEADY-STATE CONCENTRATIONS; TODGA;

ACTINIDES; AMERICIUM; AMINO ACIDS; CENTRIFUGATION; CORROSION; CURIUM; MIXTURES; SOLVENT EXTRACTION;

DIRECT PROCESS REFINING;

EID: 84882272818     PISSN: 07366299     EISSN: 15322262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07366299.2013.775890     Document Type: Article

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