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Ekstraksie van uraan uit kaliumkarbonaatoplossings deur presipitasie van UF4-houdende verbindings en deur middel van anioonuitruiling

Dissertation (MSc )--University of Pretoria, 1990.

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spelling oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/99521 Ekstraksie van uraan uit kaliumkarbonaatoplossings deur presipitasie van UF4-houdende verbindings en deur middel van anioonuitruiling Rademeyer, C.J. Vosloo, Anna Magdalena Ekstraksie Uraan Kaliumkarbonaatplossings UF4-houdende verbindings Anioonuitruiling UCTD Dissertation (MSc )--University of Pretoria, 1990. The recovery plant of the department of conversion and pelletisation of the AEC recovers uranium from different types of scrap. If an accident should occur in the conversion plant, for example if the filters do not shut off effectively, the HF-scrubbers can be contaminated with uranium. The contaminated K2C03 solution will be pumped as scrap to the recovery plant for the uranium to be recovered effectively from the contaminated solution. A suitable recovery method had to be developed. Two possible methods were investigated namely i) precipitation and reduction and ii) anion exchange. As possible reduction agents, acid and tartaric acid were investigated at different pHs, temperatures and in different excess amounts. U6 is reduced with difficulty and the solutions are very consentrated, therefore unknown salts were coprecipitated with the insoluble LJ 4 double salt with K and F-. The reduction of U6 by ultraviolet light in the presence of oxalic acid was also investigated. Promising results were found, but unpractical changes have to made to be the plant to implement the method. Because of the slight amount of success and the problems involving the necessary changes to the plant to implement the reduction and precipitation process, a second method of anion exchange was investigated. The results with the Duolite A162 anion exchanger in the CQ3 2 – form showed that the 15% K2C03 solution is too concentrated and that the mother solution must be diluted. The F- ion has no mentionable influence on the extraction. The uranyl carbonate complex was successfully leached from the resin by means of NH4NQ3 and HN03. The distribution coefficients (D) were determined for the resin in the C03 2 - form and for the resin in the 0H- form. According to the 0-values, more successful extractions were obtained for the resin in the 0H-form. With the resin in the 0H- form the diluting factor for the mother solution is smaller, the operating pH is smaller, the resin has a greater capacity for the uranyl carbonate complex and less problems were experienced with gas formation during leaching. Implementing the process in the existing plant involves relatively few disturbances. The second method investigated, namely anion exchange, is recommended for the recovery plant as a suitable method of recovery. Chemistry MSc 2024-11-27T09:16:05Z 2024-11-27T09:16:05Z 21/09/28 1990 Dissertation http://hdl.handle.net/2263/99521 afr © 2024 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria
spellingShingle Ekstraksie
Uraan
Kaliumkarbonaatplossings
UF4-houdende verbindings
Anioonuitruiling
UCTD
Ekstraksie van uraan uit kaliumkarbonaatoplossings deur presipitasie van UF4-houdende verbindings en deur middel van anioonuitruiling
title Ekstraksie van uraan uit kaliumkarbonaatoplossings deur presipitasie van UF4-houdende verbindings en deur middel van anioonuitruiling
title_full Ekstraksie van uraan uit kaliumkarbonaatoplossings deur presipitasie van UF4-houdende verbindings en deur middel van anioonuitruiling
title_fullStr Ekstraksie van uraan uit kaliumkarbonaatoplossings deur presipitasie van UF4-houdende verbindings en deur middel van anioonuitruiling
title_full_unstemmed Ekstraksie van uraan uit kaliumkarbonaatoplossings deur presipitasie van UF4-houdende verbindings en deur middel van anioonuitruiling
title_short Ekstraksie van uraan uit kaliumkarbonaatoplossings deur presipitasie van UF4-houdende verbindings en deur middel van anioonuitruiling
title_sort ekstraksie van uraan uit kaliumkarbonaatoplossings deur presipitasie van uf4 houdende verbindings en deur middel van anioonuitruiling
topic Ekstraksie
Uraan
Kaliumkarbonaatplossings
UF4-houdende verbindings
Anioonuitruiling
UCTD
url http://hdl.handle.net/2263/99521