• Proceedings of the Korean Radioactive Waste Society Conference
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• 2007.11a
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• pp.289-290
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• 2007

본 연구에서 제시된 모델을 기반으로 KCl-LiCl/Cd의 전해제련 시스템 해석을 통하여 다성분 금속염의 전해 분리의 기본 특성을 이해할 수 있었으며, 주어진 정전류 전해제련 모사에서 전해거동을 예측할 수 있었다. 또한 시간에 따른 용융염 전극반응에 참여하는 각 원소들의 전류 및 전극반응에 가해지는 전위를 예측할 수 있는 모델로써 전해장치의 설계 및 운전시 전해 변수들이 전해성능에 미치는 영향을 판단하는데 유용하게 활용될 것이 기대된다.

• Journal of Nuclear Fuel Cycle and Waste Technology(JNFCWT)
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.213-218
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• 2009

Electrowinning process recovers uranium with actinide elements from spent fuels and is a key step in the Pyroprocessing because of proliferation resistance. An analysis of heat transfer of the Electrowinning cell was conducted to develop basic tool for designing engineering-scale Electrowinner. For the calculation of the heat transfer, ANSYS CFX commercial code was adapted. As a result of the calculation, the vertical Heating Zone length had great effect upon temperature of LiCl-KCl eutectic salt. To maintain constant temperature in the salt, the Heating Zone length should be three times longer than the height of the salt. However, the argon and salt temperatures were barely affected by the Cooling Zone length. The temperature under the Cell cover was mainly influenced by the number of the cooling plates. When the cooling plates were installed more than the number of 5, temperature under the cover was maintained below $250^{\circ}C$. These temperature properties had similar tendency toward the temperature of the Cell which was measured from experiments, Simulated heat transfer information from this study could be used to design engineering-scale Electrowinner.

• Proceedings of the Korean Radioactive Waste Society Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.426-430
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• 2003

Fissionable uranium will be separated from long-lived nuclear materials in pyroprocess for transmutation. This study was measured decomposition voltage and deposition rate on cathode of uranium in $LiF-BeF_2$ molten salt by electrowinning. The result of experimental is that decomposition voltage of $UF_4$ and $LiF-BeF_2$ molten salt is -1.4 and -1.5 volt at $500^{\circ}C$ Deposition rate of uranium on cathode increases with increase of uranium concentration in molten salt.

• 한국전기화학회:학술대회논문집
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• 1998.10a
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• pp.36-36
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• 1998

• Proceedings of the Korean Radioactive Waste Society Conference
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• 2016.10a
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• pp.131-132
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• 2016

• Journal of Nuclear Fuel Cycle and Waste Technology(JNFCWT)
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.1-7
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• 2010

In the present work, an electrowinning process in the LiCl-KCl/Cd system is considered to model and analyze the electrotransport of the actinide and rare-earth elements. A simple dynamic modeling of this process was performed by taking into account the material balances and diffusion-controlled electrochemical reactions in a diffusion boundary layer at an electrode interface between the molten salt electrolyte and liquid cadmium cathode. The proposed modeling approach was based on the half-cell reduction reactions of metal chloride occurring on the cathode. This model demonstrated a capability for the prediction of the concentration behaviors, a faradic current of each element and an electrochemical potential as function of the time up to the corresponding electrotransport satisfying a given applied current based on a galvanostatic electrolysis. The results of selected case studies including five elements (U, Pu, Am, La, Nd) system are shown, and a preliminary simulation is carried out to show how the model can be used to understand the electrochemical characteristics and provide better information for developing an advanced electrowinner.

• Resources Recycling
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• v.25 no.4
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• pp.68-79
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• 2016

Titanium is the ninth most abundant element in the Earth's crust. It is also the forth most abundant structural metal after aluminum, iron and magnesium. Titanium is conventionally produced by the Kroll process. New processes to produce metallic titanium have been currently developed by many researchers in the world. In this study, the existing technologies, including both commercial and developmental processes, categorized into three groups: those by metallothermic reduction of $TiCl_4$ and $TiO_2$, those by electrolytic reduction of $TiO_2$ and hydrogen reduction of Ti compounds. Their mechanisms for reduction and their features are summarized and discussed in the view of industrial application.

• Resources Recycling
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• v.24 no.2
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• pp.23-28
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• 2015

Most of the domestic need for tin rely on imports. In this work, a pyrometallurgical process was investigated to recover pure tin from the tin oxides in tin bath which results from the production of flat glass and LCD panel. From the results on the effect of reaction temperature, the highest recovery percentage of tin was obtained at $1350^{\circ}C$. The recovery percentage of tin was improved to 88% by employing the first and second smelting step. Electrorefining of the crude tin thus obtained led to pure tin with purity higher than 99.9%.

• Proceedings of the Korean Radioactive Waste Society Conference
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• 2009.11a
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• pp.315-316
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• 2009

• Proceedings of the Korean Radioactive Waste Society Conference
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• 2008.05a
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• pp.237-237
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• 2008