1,4-diphenylbutadiyne as a potential tritium getter

Conference · Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 1980

OSTI ID:6444644

Miller, H H; Bissell, E E; Tsugawa, R T; Souers, P C

Research on the acetylene compound 1,4-diphenylbutadiyne is an effort to develop an air-operative tritium gas scavenger. T/sub 2/ adds to the acetylene bond of the organic in the presence of a metal catalyst. The catalyst also stimulates the oxidation reaction as well. The butadiyne compound has shown good reaction efficiency at 300 ppM T/sub 2/ in static dry air. At this concentration 75% of the scavenged tritium was in the organic. This work has expanded to the investigation of liquid acetylenes, metal acetylene complexes, organometallics and acetylene based alcohols. The best of these compounds has gettered 100% of 10 to 500 ppM T/sub 2/ for both static and dynamic air flow conditions.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-48
• OSTI ID: 6444644
• Report Number(s): UCRL-84265; CONF-801038-21; TRN: 81-009511
• Resource Relation: Conference: 16. DOE nuclear air cleaning conference, San Diego, CA, USA, 20 Oct 1980
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
TRITIUM
SCAVENGING
AIR CLEANING
AIR POLLUTION CONTROL
ALCOHOLS
ALKYNES
CATALYSIS
COMPLEXES
EVALUATION
GETTERS
LIQUIDS
ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUNDS
PALLADIUM
RADIOPROTECTIVE SUBSTANCES
TRACE AMOUNTS
TRITIUM COMPOUNDS
TRITIUM OXIDES
WATER VAPOR
BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES
BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES
CHALCOGENIDES
CLEANING
DRUGS
ELEMENTS
FLUIDS
GASES
HYDROCARBONS
HYDROGEN ISOTOPES
HYDROXY COMPOUNDS
ISOTOPES
LABELLED COMPOUNDS
LIGHT NUCLEI
METALS
NUCLEI
ODD-EVEN NUCLEI
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
OXIDES
OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
PLATINUM METALS
POLLUTION CONTROL
RADIOISOTOPES
TRANSITION ELEMENTS
VAPORS
YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES
500300* - Environment
Atmospheric- Radioactive Materials Monitoring & Transport- (-1989)