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http://dx.doi.org/10.9713/kcer.2013.51.6.700

Study on Oxidation or Reduction Behavior of Cs-Te-O System with Gas Conditions of Voloxidation Process  

Park, Byung Heung (Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Korea National University of Transportation)
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Korean Chemical Engineering Research / v.51, no.6, 2013 , pp. 700-708 More about this Journal
Abstract
Pyroprocessing has been developed for the purpose of resolving the current spent nuclear fuel management issue and enhancing the recycle of valuable resources. Pyroprocessing has been developed with the dry technologies which are performed under high temperature conditions excluding any aqueous processes. Pyro-processes which are based on the electrochemical principles require pretreatment processes and a voloxidation process is considered as a pretreatment step for an electrolytic reduction process. Various kinds of gas conditions are applicable to the voloxidation process and the understanding of Cs behavior during the process is of importance for the analyses of waste characteristics and heat load on the overall pyroprocessing. In this study, the changes of chemical compounds with the gas conditions were calculated by analyzing gas-solid reaction behavior based on the chemical equilibria on a Cs-Te-O system. $Cs_2TeO_3$ and $Cs_2TeO_4$ were selected after a Tpp diagram analysis and it was confirmed that they are relatively stable under oxidizing atmospheres while it was shown that Cs and Te would be removed by volatilization under reducing atmosphere at a high temperature. This work provided basic data for predicting Cs behavior during the voloxidation process at which compounds are chemically distributed as the first stage in the pyroprocessing and it is expected that the results would be used for setting up material balances and related purposes.
Keywords
Pyroprocessing; Cs Compounds; Reaction Equilibrium; Voloxidation; Gas-solid Reaction;
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