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Treatment Process For Removing Radioactive Thorium From Solvent Extraction Liquid Effluent

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US Patent:
6991731, Jan 31, 2006
Filed:
Sep 23, 2003
Appl. No.:
10/669278
Inventors:
Sydney Koegler - Richland WA, US
Assignee:
Framatome ANP Inc. - Lynchburg VA
International Classification:
C02F 9/00
US Classification:
210669, 210682, 210694
Abstract:
The liquid effluent from solvent extraction contains radioactive thorium Th-231 and Th-234. This invention uses an ion exchange process to remove and concentrate the thorium. The process is designed so that the thorium remains on the ion exchange column until it decays to uranium and protactinium. These decay products are subsequently replaced by additional thorium. Therefore, the thorium never reaches break-through and the column can be used continuously without regeneration.

Method And System For Recovering Metal From Metal-Containing Materials

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US Patent:
7686865, Mar 30, 2010
Filed:
Jan 12, 2006
Appl. No.:
11/795424
Inventors:
Chien M. Wai - Moscow ID, US
Sydney S. Koegler - Richland WA, US
Assignee:
Idaho Research Foundation, Inc. - Moscow ID
Areva NP, Inc. - Richland WA
International Classification:
C22B 60/02
C22B 60/04
C22B 3/26
US Classification:
75396, 75398, 75711, 75722
Abstract:
Embodiments of a method and a system for recovering a metal, such as uranium, from a metal-containing material are disclosed. The metal-containing material is exposed to an extractant containing a liquid or supercritical-fluid solvent and an acid-base complex including an oxidizing agent and a complexing agent. Batches of the metal-containing material are moved through a series of stations while the extractant is moved through the stations in the opposite direction. After the extraction step, the metal is separated from the solvent, the complexing agent and/or other metals by exposing the extract to a stripping agent in a countercurrent stripping column. The complexing agent and the solvent exit the column and are separated from each other by reducing the pressure. The recovered complexing agent is recharged with fresh oxidizing agent and recombined with fresh or recovered solvent to form a recovered extractant, which is distributed through the extraction stations.

Treatment Process For Removing Radioactive Thorium From Solvent Extraction Liquid Effluent

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US Patent:
20030015472, Jan 23, 2003
Filed:
Sep 19, 2002
Appl. No.:
10/247166
Inventors:
Sydney Koegler - Richland WA, US
International Classification:
C02F001/42
US Classification:
210/669000, 210/682000
Abstract:
The liquid effluent from solvent extraction contains radioactive thorium Th-231 and Th-234. This invention uses an ion exchange process to remove and concentrate the thorium. The process is designed so that the thorium remains on the ion exchange column until it decays to uranium and protactinium. These decay products are subsequently replaced by additional thorium. Therefore, the thorium never reaches break-through and the column can be used continuously without regeneration.

Treatment Process For Removing Radioactive Thorium From Solvent Extraction Liquid Effluent

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US Patent:
6478970, Nov 12, 2002
Filed:
Sep 17, 1999
Appl. No.:
09/398978
Inventors:
Sydney Koegler - Richland WA
Assignee:
Framatome ANP Inc. - Lynchburg VA
International Classification:
C02F 142
US Classification:
210669, 210682, 210694
Abstract:
The liquid effluent from solvent extraction contains radioactive thorium Th-231 and Th-234. This invention uses an ion exchange process to remove and concentrate the thorium. The process is designed so that the thorium remains on the ion exchange column until it decays to uranium and protactinium. These decay products are subsequently replaced by additional thorium. Therefore, the thorium never reaches break-through and the column can be used continuously without regeneration.
Sydney S Koegler from Richland, WA, age ~75 Get Report