FEED MATERIALS PRODUCTION CENTER REFINERY--KEROSENE-TBP PROCESS. (Engineering Materials)

Technical Report · Fri Oct 30 23:00:00 EST 1964

OSTI ID:4081182

The Feed Materials Production Center Refinery is used to process uranium ore concentrates to highly purified uranium trioxide (UO/sub 3/). This is accomplished by: digestion of the ore concentrates in nltric acid; extraction of the uranium from the resulting uranyl nitrate slurry with tri-butyl phosphate in pulsed, perforated-plate extraction columns; and denltration to UO/sub 3/ by calcination of the aqueous uranyl nitrate. Auxiliary facilities include a nitric acid recovery system for absorbing nltric oxide vapors, an organic solvent treating system that permits the recycling of the tributyl phosphate solvent, and a sump system for the precipitation and recovery of uranium values in waste liquor streams. (F.S.)

• Research Organization: National Lead Co. of Ohio, Cincinnati Page(s): v
• NSA Number: NSA-18-013979
• OSTI ID: 4081182
• Report Number(s): CAPE-50
• Country of Publication: Country unknown/Code not available
• Language: English

Related Subjects

ADSORPTION
BUTYL PHOSPHATES
CHEMICAL REACTIONS
CHEMISTRY
COMBUSTION
CONFIGURATION
ECONOMICS
ENRICHMENT
EXTRACTION COLUMNS
IMPURITIES
KEROSENE
LIQUID FLOW
MIXING
NITRIC ACID
NITROGEN OXIDES
OPERATION
ORE PROCESSING
PETROLEUM
PRECIPITATION
RECOVERY
REFINING
SLURRIES
SOLUTIONS
SOLVENT EXTRACTION
TRACE AMOUNTS
TURBULENCE
URANIUM COMPOUNDS
URANIUM TRIOXIDE
URANYL NITRATES
VAPORS
WASTE PROCESSING
WASTE SOLUTIONS
WATER