Open AccessPROCESS DEVELOPMENT QUARTERLY REPORT. II. PILOT PLANT WORK
Author(s) -
N. ed. Kuhlman
Publication year - 1957
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
DOI - 10.2172/4178224
Subject(s) - ingot , pilot plant , solubility , extraction (chemistry) , extrusion , hexane , chemistry , screw press , metallurgy , pulp and paper industry , materials science , waste management , engineering , chromatography , organic chemistry , alloy
Progress is reported on the gross solubility of U in digestions of Mallinokrodt feed materials, studies of variables affecting U purity in a TBP hexane extraction cycle, low-acid flowsheet for TBP--hexane extraction process based on a 440 g U/liter in lM HNO/sub 3/ digest liquor, hacking studies in the pilot plant pumperdecanter system, recovery of U from residues from the dingot process, lowering the H level in dingot metal, forging of dingot bar stock, dingot extrusion, fubrication of UO/sub 2/ fuel elements, and the determination of H content of derby and ingot metal. (W.L.H.