Recovery of uranium from wet phosphoric acid by solvent extraction processes

Chemical Reviews

Volumn 114, Issue 24, 2014, Pages 12002-12023

  Beltrami, Denis ^a,b   Cote, Gérard ^a   Mokhtari, Hamid ^b   Courtaud, Bruno ^b   Moyer, Bruce A ^c   Chagnes, Alexandre ^a  

^a PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b AREVA NP   (France)

^c OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BYPRODUCTS; EXTRACTION; MEDICAL IMAGING; METAL RECOVERY; NAVAL VESSELS; SHIP PROPULSION; SOLUTIONS; SOLVENT EXTRACTION; STRIPPING (REMOVAL); URANIUM;

AMMONIUM DIURANATE; BASIC AND APPLIED RESEARCH; EXTRACTION SOLVENTS; MULTIPLE APPLICATIONS; SOLVENT-EXTRACTION PROCESS; STRIP SOLUTIONS; VALUABLE METALS; WET PHOSPHORIC ACIDS;

CHEMICALS REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT);

EID: 84919897661     PISSN: 00092665     EISSN: 15206890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/cr5001546     Document Type: Review

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