Advanced Hydride Laboratory

Conference · Sun Dec 31 04:00:00 EST 1989

OSTI ID:10133988

Horen, A S

The Replacement Tritium Facility (RTF) is a $140 million reservoir loading and unloading facility using state-of-the-art technology, scheduled for completion in 1990 and startup in 1991. In the RTF, metal hydride technology will be used to store, separate, purify, pump, and compress hydrogen isotopes. In support of the RTF, a $3.2 million ``cold`` process demonstration facility began operation in November, 1987. The purpose of the Advanced Hydride Laboratory (AHL) is to demonstrate the RFT`s metal hydride technology by integrating the various unit operations into an overall process. While much of the RTF`s metal hydride technology had been demonstrated in laboratory bench-scale and pilot-scale units, none of the units had been operated together and integrated into an overall process.

• Research Organization: Westinghouse Savannah River Co., Aiken, SC (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC09-89SR18035
• OSTI ID: 10133988
• Report Number(s): WSRC-MS--90-52; CONF-8910568--2; ON: DE92009454
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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08 HYDROGEN
080200
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE
360104
37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
400202
ALUMINIUM ALLOYS
CALCIUM ALLOYS
COMPRESSION
DIATOMACEOUS EARTH
HELIUM
HYDRIDATION
HYDROGEN ISOTOPES
ISOTOPE EFFECTS, ISOTOPE EXCHANGE, AND ISOTOPE SEPARATION
ISOTOPE SEPARATION
LANTHANUM ALLOYS
METALS
NICKEL BASE ALLOYS
PALLADIUM
PHYSICAL PROPERTIES
PUMPING
PURIFICATION
SEPARATION PROCESSES
STORAGE
STORAGE, TRANSPORT, AND HANDLING