Uptake of uranium from seawater by amidoxime-based polymeric adsorbent: Field experiments, modeling, and updated economic assessment

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 53, Issue 14, 2014, Pages 6076-6083

  Kim, Jungseung ^a   Tsouris, Costas ^a   Oyola, Yatsandra ^a   Janke, Christopher J ^a   Mayes, Richard T ^a   Dai, Sheng ^a   Gill, Gary ^b   Kuo, Li Jung ^b   Wood, Jordana ^b   Choe, Key Young ^b   Schneider, Erich ^c   Lindner, Harry ^c  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSTS; LABORATORIES; POLYMERS; SEAWATER; URANIUM;

ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY; COLUMN EXPERIMENTS; ECONOMIC ASSESSMENTS; OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORIES; PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORIES; POLYMERIC ADSORBENT; URANIUM ADSORPTION; URANIUM PRODUCTION;

ADSORBENTS;

EID: 84898457820     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie4039828     Document Type: Article

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