Simple method for technetium removal from aqueous solutions
- Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (United States)
- Oak Ridge K-25 Site, TN (United States). Environmental and Chemical Technology Dept.
Because of an increasing need for {sup 99}Tc removal from treatment solutions during waste processing and environmental cleanups, several inexpensive sorbents were investigated. Here, Packed-column experiments with iron dust of 40 to 60 mesh (Fisher I-57) showed an excellent uptake of pertechnetate ions from alkaline (pH {approximately} 8.5) high-nitrate (100 to 250 g/l) solutions at flow rates measured in bed volumes (BVs) of between 0.05 and 0.15 BV/min. The columns worked well until they became plugged by rusting after several hundred bed volumes of solution were flowed through (330 to 900 BV). Similar tests using organic ion-exchange resins, such as Dowex SRB-OH and Reillex HP and Reillex HPQ, and the same alkaline high-nitrate solutions showed breakthroughs after 20 to 50 BV were passed.
- OSTI ID:
- 31990
- Journal Information:
- Nuclear Technology, Vol. 109, Issue 1; Other Information: PBD: Jan 1995
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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