• 제목/요약/키워드: Uranium bed

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Effect of process parameters on the recovery of thorium tetrafluoride prepared by hydrofluorination of thorium oxide, and their optimization

  • Kumar, Raj;Gupta, Sonal;Wajhal, Sourabh;Satpati, S.K.;Sahu, M.L.
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • 제54권5호
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    • pp.1560-1569
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    • 2022
  • Liquid fueled molten salt reactors (MSRs) have seen renewed interest because of their inherent safety features, higher thermal efficiency and potential for efficient thorium utilisation for power generation. Thorium fluoride is one of the salts used in liquid fueled MSRs employing Th-U cycle. In the present study, ThF4 was prepared by hydro-fluorination of ThO2 using anhydrous HF gas. Process parameters viz. bed depth, hydrofluorination time and hydrofluorination temperature, were optimized for the preparation of ThF4 in a static bed reactor setup. The products were characterized with X-Ray diffraction and experimental conditions for complete conversion to ThF4 were established which also corroborated with the yield values. Hydrofluorination of ThO2 at 450 ℃ for half an hour at a bed depth of 6 mm gave the best result, with a yield of about 99.36% ThF4. No unconverted oxide or any other impurity was observed. Rietveld refinement was performed on the XRD data of this ThF4, and Chi2 value of 3.54 indicated good agreement between observed and calculated profiles.

우라늄 베드 초기온도 및 헬륨농도의 수소 흡장 영향 (Hydriding Performance in a Uranium Bed depending on the Initial Bed Temperatures and Helium Contents)

  • 구대서;김연진;정광진;윤세훈;정흥석
    • 한국수소및신에너지학회논문집
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    • 제27권2호
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    • pp.163-168
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    • 2016
  • Korea has been developing nuclear fusion fuel storage and delivery system (SDS) technologies including a basic scientific study on hydrogen storage. To develop nuclear fusion technology, it is necessary to store and supply hydrogen isotopes needed for Tokamak operation. SDS is used for storing hydrogen isotopes as a metal hydride form. The rapid hydriding of tritium is very important not only for safety reasons but also for the economic design and operation of the SDS. In this study, we designed and fabricated a medium-scale getter bed of depleted uranium (DU). The hydriding of DU has been measured by varying the initial temperature ($100-300^{\circ}C$) of the DU getter bed to investigate the influence of the cooling temperature. Furthermore, we analyzed the effect of a helium blanket on the hydriding performance with 0 - 12% helium content in hydrogen.

감손 우라늄 베드 수소 탈장 성능 (Dehydriding Performance in a Depleted Uranium Bed)

  • 구대서;김연진;윤세훈;정흥석
    • 한국수소및신에너지학회논문집
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    • 제27권1호
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    • pp.22-28
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    • 2016
  • It is necessary to store and supply hydrogen isotopes for Tokamak operation. A storage and delivery system (SDS) is used for storing hydrogen isotopes as a metal hydride form. We designed and fabricated a depleted uranium (DU) bed to store hydrogen isotopes. The rapid storage of hydrogen isotopes is very important not only for safety reasons but also for the economic design and operation of the SDS. The delivery rate at the desorption temperatures without the operation of a dry pump was analyzed in comparison with that with the operation of the dry pump. The effect of the initial desorption temperatures on the dehydriding of the DU without the operation of the dry pump was measured. The effect of the initial desorption temperatures on the dehydriding of DU with the operation of the dry pump was also measured and analyzed. The primary pressure on the desorption temperatures without the operation of the dry pump was analyzed in comparison with that with the operation of the dry pump. The temperature gradient of the coil heater and the primary vessel was also analyzed. Our results will be used to develop pilot scale hydrogen isotope processes. It was confirmed that dehydriding of a medium-scale DU bed has enabled without the operation of the dry pump.

Prediction of the Dynamic Adsorption Behaviors of Uranium and Cobalt in a Fixed Bed by Surface Modified Activated Carbon

  • Park, Geun-Il;Lee, Jung-Won;Song, Kee-Chan;Kim, In-Tae;Kim, Kwang-Wook;Yang, Myung-Seung
    • 한국방사성폐기물학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국방사성폐기물학회 2003년도 가을 학술논문집
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    • pp.73-77
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    • 2003
  • In order to predict the dynamic behaviors of uranium and cobalt in a fixed bed at various influent pH values of liquid waste, the adsorption system was regarded as multi-component adsorption between each ionic species in a solution. Langmuir isotherm parameters of each species were extracted by incorporating equilibrium data with the solution chemistry of uranium and cobalt using IAST. Prediction results were in good agreement with the experimental data, except for a high concentration and pH. Although there was some limitations in predicting the cobalt adsorption, this method may be useful in analyzing a complex adsorption system where various kinds of ionic species exist in a solution.

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옥천대(沃川帶) 우라늄광층(鑛層)의 구조규제(構造規制) 및 지구화학적(地球化學的) 특성연구(特性硏究) (Lithologic and Structural Controls and Geochemistry of Uranium Deposition in the Ogcheon Black-Slate Formation)

  • 이대성;윤석규;이종혁;김정택
    • 자원환경지질
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    • 제19권spc호
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    • pp.19-41
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    • 1986
  • Structural, radioactive, petrological, petrochemical, mineralogical and stable isotopic study as well as the review of previous studies of the uranium-bearing slates in the Ogcheon sequence were carried out to examine the lithological and structural controls, and geochemical environment in the uranium deposition in the sequence. And the study was extended to the coal-bearing formation (Jangseong Series-Permian) to compare the geochemical and sedimentologic aspects of uranium chemistry between Ogcheon and Hambaegsan areas. The results obtained are as follows: 1. The uranium mineralization occurs in the carbonaceous black slates of the middle to lower Guryongsan formation and its equivalents in the Ogcheon sequence. In general, two or three uranium-bearing carbonaceous beds are found with about 1 to 1.5km stratigraphic interval and they extend from Chungju to Jinsan for 90km in distance, with intermittent igneous intrusions and structural Jisturbances. Average thickness of the beds ranges from 20 to 1,500m. 2. These carbonaceous slate beds were folded by a strong $F_1$-fold and were refolded by subsequent $F_1$-fold, nearly co-axial with the $F_1$, resulting in a repeated occurrence of similar slate. The carbonaceous beds were swelled in hing zones and were shrinked or thined out in limb by the these foldings. Minor faulting and brecciation of the carbonaceous beds were followed causing metamorphism of these beds and secondary migration and alteration of uranium minerals and their close associations. 3. Uranium-rich zones with high radioactive anomalies are found in Chungju, Deogpyong-Yongyuri, MiwonBoun, Daejeon-Geumsan areas in the range of 500~3,700 cps (corresponds to 0.017~0.087%U). These zones continue along strike of the beds for several tens to a few hundred meters but also discontinue with swelling and pinches at places that should be analogously developed toward underground in their vertical extentions. The drilling surveyings in those area, more than 120 holes, indicate that the depth-frequency to uranium rich bed ranging 40~160 meter is greater. 4. The features that higher radioactive anomalies occur particularly from the carbonaceous beds among the argillaceous lithologic units, are well demonstrated on the cross sections of the lithology and radioactive values of the major uranium deposits in the Ogcheon zone. However, one anomalous radioactive zone is found in a l:ornfels bed in Samgoe, near Daejeon city. This is interpreted as a thermal metamorphic effect by which original uranium contents in the underlying black slate were migrated into the hornfels bed. 5. Principal minerals of the uranium-bearing black slates are quartz, sericite, biotite and chlorite, and as to chemical composition of the black slates, $Al_2O_3$ contents appear to be much lower than the average values by its clarke suggesting that the Changri basin has rather proximal to its source area. 6. The uranium-bearing carbonaceous beds contain minor amounts of phosphorite minerals, pyrite, pyrrhotite and other sulfides but not contain iron oxides. Vanadium. Molybdenum, Barium, Nickel, Zirconium, Lead, Cromium and fixed Carbon, and some other heavy metals appear to be positive by correlative with uranium in their concentrations, suggesting a possibility of their genetic relationships. The estimated pH and Eh of the slate suggests an euxenic marine to organic-rich saline water environment during uranium was deposited in the middle part of Ogcheon zone. 7. The Carboniferous shale of Jangseong Series(Sadong Series) of Permian in Hambaegsan area having low radioactivity and in fluvial to beach deposits is entirely different in geochemical property and depositional environment from the middle part of Ogcheon zone, so-called "Pibanryong-Type Ogcheon Zone". 8. Synthesizing various data obtained by several aspects of research on uranium mineralization in the studied sequence, it is concluded that the processes of uranium deposition were incorporated with rich organic precipitation by which soluble uranyl ions, $U{_2}^{+{+}}$ were organochemically complexed and carried down to the pre-Ogcheon sea bottoms formed in transitional environment, from Red Sea type basin to Black Sea type basin. Decomposition of the organic matter under reducing conditions to hydrogen sulfide, which reduced the $UO{_2}^{+2}$ ions to the insoluble uranium dioxide($UO_2$), on the other side the heavy metals are precipitated as sulfides. 9. The EPMA study on the identification of uraninite and others and the genetic interpretation of uranium bearing slates by isotopic values of this work are given separately by Yun, S. in 1984.

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이온교환수지에 의한 모나자이트중 우라늄의 분리, 회수에 관한 연구 (Separation and Recovery of Uranium from Korean Monazite Sand by Ion-Exchange resin)

  • 하영구
    • 대한화학회지
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    • 제27권5호
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    • pp.361-367
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    • 1983
  • 이온 교환수지에 의한 국산모나자이트 중에 함유된 우라늄을 분리, 회수하기 위하여 강염기성 이온교환수지(Amberlite IRA-900)에 S$O_4^{2-}$ 및 P$O_4^{3-}$ 이온을 흡착시켜 황산우라닐착이온, 인산우라닐착이온 형태로 우라늄을 흡착시켜 적당한 용리액(HN$O_3$ : N$NH_4NO_3$)으로 우라늄을 분리 회수하는 실험을 하였다. 표준우라늄을 사용하였을 때 황산형수지에서 99.3%, 인산형수지에서 99.2%까지 회수하였으며 모자나이트를 황산분해한 모나자이트 황산분해용액 중의 희토류원소들을 제거한 용액을 사용하였을 때는 약 92%까지 회수하였다. 모나자이트 중에 함유된 인산이온의 방해가 없는 것으로 나타났다. 인산형수지에서 우라늄의 회수율이 51% 정도인 것으로 보아 모나자이트를 황산으로 분해하였을 때는 대부분의 우라늄은 황산우라닐착이온으로 된다는 사실도 확인하였다.

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회전형 휘발성 산화장치 이용 다공성 우라늄산화물 그래뉼 제조 연구 (Study on the Fabrication of Porous Uranium Oxide Granule Using a Rotary Voloxidizer)

  • 이재원;윤여완;신진명;이정원;박근일;박장진
    • 공업화학
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    • 제22권6호
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    • pp.642-647
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    • 2011
  • 회전형 휘발성 산화장치(voloxidizer)와 200 g $U_3O_8$ 분말을 사용하여 초기 미세 입자층의 운동형태, 열처리 온도 및 시간, voloxidizer의 회전속도에 따른 다공성 그래뉼의 회수율과 특성을 분석하였다. 초기 미세 입자층의 운동형태에 따른 1 mm 이상의 그래뉼의 회수율은 rolling 운동 때보다 slumping 운동일 경우에 보다 높았다. 초기 미세 입자층이 rolling 운동형태인 경우에는 미세입자로부터 그래뉼이 생성됨에 따라서 slumping 운동형태로 변하며 slumping 빈도가 매우 높았다. 열처리 온도의 증가 및 10 h까지는 시간의 증가에 따라서 그래뉼의 회수율이 매우 크게 증가하였다. Slumping 운동형태를 보이는 초기 미세 입자층의 경우에 voloxidizer의 회전속도가 증가함에 따라서 그래뉼의 회수율 은 81.5에서 88.7%로 증가하였으나, 그래뉼 특성 측면에서 보면 회전속도가 2 rpm인 경우에 밀도, 파쇄강도, 구형도가 가장 높았다.

표면개질 활성탄을 이용한 고정층에서 우라늄 및 코발트 이온의 동적 흡착거동 모사 (Prediction of the Dynamic Adsorption Behaviors of the Uranium and Cobalt Ions in a Fixed Bed by Surface Modified Activated Carbon)

  • Geun-IL Park;Jung-Won Lee;Kee-Chan Song;In-Tae Kim;Kwang-Wook Kim;Myung-Seung Yang
    • 방사성폐기물학회지
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    • 제1권1호
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    • pp.81-92
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    • 2003
  • 폐기물 용액의 pH 변화에 따른 고정층에서 우라늄 및 코발트 이온의 흡착거동을 다성분 흡착시스템으로 가정하여 이론적으로 예측하였다. 즉 pH 변화에 따라 존재 분율이 달라지는 각 이온 성분들이 상호 경쟁적으로 흡착한다는 가정 하에서, 평형실험에서 얻어진 결과와 우라늄 및 코발트 이온의 용액특성 (Solution chemistry)을 상호 결합하여 각 이온 성분들의 Langmuir 평형상수 값을 Ideal Adsorbed Solution Theory를 도입하여 구하였으며, 이상의 결과를 이용하여 고정층 파과곡선을 이론적으로 계산한 결과 pH 변화에 따른 흡착거동을 비교적 잘 예측할 수 있었다 따라서 본 연구에서 시도한 방법은 이온 농도와 pH가 높은 경우를 제외하고 pH 변화에 따라 용액 내에 이온의 형태가 다양하게 존재하는 흡착 시스템을 이론적으로 예측하는 데 비교적 유용하게 사용할 수 있을 것으로 판단된다.

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AOPP-g-AN 섬유이온교환체를 이용한 간수로부터 우라늄 이온 흡착특성에 관한 연구 (A Study of Adsorption Characteristics of Uranium ion Using Amidoximated PP-g-AN Fibrous ion-exchanger in Brine Water)

  • 황택성;최재은;이재천
    • 폴리머
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    • 제26권1호
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    • pp.121-127
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    • 2002
  • Acrylonitrile을 그라프트시킨 아미드옥심화 polypropylene 섬유이온교환체(AOPP-g-AN)의 충전 bed 높이를 변화시켜 간수 중 우라늄 이온 흡착 특성 및 흡착 공정 특성을 관찰하였다. 아미드옥심형 섬유이온교환체의 팽윤율은 그라프트율 100%, 물과 과산화수소 용매에 대하여 각각 8.54, 8.87 g/g을 나타내었다. 이온교환용량은 그라프트율이 증가함에 따라 증가하였으며, 그라프트율 100%에서 3.99 meq/g으로 최대를 나타내었다. 회분식 흡착에서 우라늄 흡착은 10분 이내에 초기 흡착 평형에 도달하며, 흡착 속도는 9.50 mg/min으로 나타났다. 최종 흡착 용량은 3.95 meq/g이었으며, pH에 따른 흡착 특성 변화는 관찰되지 않았다. 충전비에 따른 연속식 흡착시 흡착 용량은 L/D=1에서 3.92 meq/g으로 최대를 나타내었으며, L/D<2에서 편류 및 불균일 흡착에 의한 2단계 과정으로 파과가 나타남을 확인하였다. 실제 간수에 대한 우라늄 흡착 실험 결과, 흡착 용량 및 파과시간은 각각 3.63 meq/g, 26 min으로 모의용액과 비교 시 주목할만한 흡착능 저하는 관찰되지 않았다.

고함량 자연방사성물질 우려지역에 대한 지하수 환경 특성 연구 (Characteristics of Groundwater Environment in Highly Enriched Areas of Natural Radionuclides)

  • 정도환;엄익춘;윤정기;김문수;김영규;김태승
    • 한국지하수토양환경학회지:지하수토양환경
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    • 제15권6호
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    • pp.9-16
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    • 2010
  • Groundwater sampling was performed at 38 wells where they are located in the areas with high uranium and radon (marked as A and B, respectively) concentrations, which were based on the previous research results. In-situ parameters (temperature, pH, EC, Eh, DO) and natural radionuclides (uranium and radon) were analyzed to figure out the characteristics of groundwater environments. In-situ data did not show any relations to natural radionuclide data, which could be caused by groundwater mixing, depths of wells, and geological settings, etc. But the highest radon well presented relatively low temperature value and the highest uranium well presented relatively low pH values The highest uranium concentration ranging $1.14{\sim}188.19{\mu}g/L$ showed in the area of A region consisted of Jurassic two-mica granite. The areas of Jurassic biotite granite and Cretaceous granite in the A region have the uranium concentrations ranging $0.10{\sim}49.78{\mu}g/L$ and $0.36{\sim}3.01{\mu}g/L$, respectively. The uranium values from between wells of community water systems (CWSs) penetrating fractured bed-rock aquifers and personal boreholes settled in shallow aquifers near the wells of CWSs show big differences. It implies that the groundwaters of the two areas have evolved from different water-rock interaction paths that may caused by various types of wells having different aquifers. High radon activities in the area of B region composed of Precambrian gneiss showed ranging from 6,770 to 64,688 pCi/L. Even though the wells are located in the same geological settings, their rodon concentration presented different according to depth and distance.