Reduction-oxidation of actinides extraction process (ROANEX) for used nuclear fuel recycling

    公开(公告)号:US10297355B1

    公开(公告)日:2019-05-21

    申请号:US15378191

    申请日:2016-12-14

    摘要: The invention relates to the ROANEX method, which extracts actinides from used nuclear fuel in a single purification cycle. The used nuclear fuel contains actinides, U, Am, Pu, Np. and Cm, and fission products, Cs, Sr and Tc. The fission products are separated first from the used nuclear fuel. The actinides are reduced to their lowest oxidation states and then oxidized to their highest oxidations states. Uranium, Pu and Np move to an organic phase solution and Am and Cm move to a nitrate solution. Uranium, Pu, and Np are stripped from the organic phase solution, and then treated with an oxalic acid to form a precipitate. Americium and Cm are treated with a potassium carbonate solution and Am precipitates. Actinides Am, U, Pu, and Np precipitates are heated in an oven and then blended together to form a mixed oxide fuel of UO2, PuO2, NpO2 and AmO2.

    Method of preparing ceramic powders

    公开(公告)号:US10239792B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-03-26

    申请号:US14475091

    申请日:2014-09-02

    申请人: EEStor, Inc.

    摘要: A method of forming composition-modified barium titanate ceramic particulate includes mixing a plurality of precursor materials and a precipitant solution to form an aqueous suspension. The plurality of precursors include barium nitrate, titanium chelate, and a metal or oxometal chelate. The precipitant solution includes tetraalkylammonium hydroxide and tetraalkylammonium oxalate. The method further includes treating the aqueous suspension at a temperature of at least 150° C. and a pressure of at least 200 psi, and separating particulate from the aqueous suspension after treating.

    System and method for the calcination of minerals
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    发明授权
    System and method for the calcination of minerals 有权
    矿物煅烧的系统和方法

    公开(公告)号:US09469884B2

    公开(公告)日:2016-10-18

    申请号:US14297492

    申请日:2014-06-05

    申请人: CALIX LTD.

    摘要: A system and method for the calcination of minerals. The system comprises a vertically disposed reactor segment configured to impart horizontal forces on particles passing through the reactor segment in a vertical direction; an injector unit for receiving granular feedstock, the injector unit being disposed at a top portion of the reactor segment, whereby granules of the feedstock move through the reactor segment in a granular flow under at least one of a group consisting of a force of steam, gravitational force and a centrifugal force; a reactor heat exchange unit thermally coupled to a wall of the reactor segment for providing heat to the flowing granules inside the reactor segment through heat transfer through the wall of the reactor segment; one or more inlets formed in the reactor segment for introducing a superheated gas into the reactor segment to create conditions of a gas-solid multiphase system; and one or more exhaust openings formed in the retort segment such that gas products are at least partially flushed from the reactor segment under the flow of the superheated gas from the inlets to the exhaust openings.

    摘要翻译: 矿物煅烧的系统和方法。 该系统包括垂直设置的反应器段,构造成在水平方向上通过反应器段的颗粒上施加水平力; 用于接收颗粒原料的注射器单元,所述注射器单元设置在所述反应器段的顶部,由此所述原料的颗粒在颗粒流中在至少一个蒸汽力作用下移动通过反应器段, 重力和离心力; 热反应器热交换单元,其热耦合到所述反应器段的壁上,用于通过经由所述反应器段的壁的热传递来向所述反应器段内的流动颗粒提供热量; 在反应器段中形成一个或多个入口,用于将过热气体引入反应器段以产生气固多相系统的条件; 以及形成在蒸馏段中的一个或多个排气口,使得在过热气体从入口到排气口的流动下,气体产物至少部分地从反应器段冲洗。