Laboratory-Scale Counter-Current Centrifugal Contactor Demonstration of an Innovative-SANEX Process Using a Water Soluble BTP

Solvent Extraction and Ion Exchange

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 91-108

  Wilden, Andreas ^a   Modolo, Giuseppe ^a   Kaufholz, Peter ^a   Sadowski, Fabian ^a   Lange, Steve ^a   Sypula, Michal ^a   Magnusson, Daniel ^b   Müllich, Udo ^b   Geist, Andreas ^b   Bosbach, Dirk ^a  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

americium; curium; Innovative SANEX; SO3 Ph BTP; solvent extraction process; TODGA

Indexed keywords

AMERICIUM; CENTRIFUGATION; CURIUM; SOLVENT EXTRACTION;

CENTRIFUGAL CONTACTOR; EXTRACTION EFFICIENCIES; HIGH ACTIVE RAFFINATE; INNOVATIVE-SANEX; SO3-PH-BTP; SOLVENT-EXTRACTION PROCESS; TODGA; TRIVALENT LANTHANIDES;

SOLVENTS;

EID: 84922233427     PISSN: 07366299     EISSN: 15322262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07366299.2014.952532     Document Type: Article

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