Nuclear Engineering and Technology

  • 제51권7호
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  • Pages.1866-1870
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  • 2019
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  • 1738-5733(pISSN)
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  • 2234-358X(eISSN)
한국원자력학회 (Korean Nuclear Society)
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Employing high-temperature gas flux in a residual salt separation technique for pyroprocessing

  • 투고 : 2019.01.22
  • 심사 : 2019.05.26
  • 발행 : 2019.10.25
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Residual salt separation is an essential step in pyroprocessing because its reaction products, as prepared by electrochemical unit processes, contain frozen residual electrolyte species, which are generally composed of alkali-metal chloride salts (e.g., LiCl, KCl). In this study, a simple technique that utilizes high-temperature gas flux as a driving force to melt and push out the residual salt in the reaction products was developed. This technique is simple as it only requires the use of a heating gun in combination with a gas injection system. Consequently, $LiNO_3-ZrO_2$ and $LiCl-ZrO_2$ mixtures were successfully separated by the high-temperature gas injection (separation efficiency > 93%), thereby demonstrating the viability of this simple technique for residual salt separation.

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연구 과제 주관 기관 : National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF)

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