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Countercurrent Liquid-Liquid Extractor

Journal Article · · Industrial and Engineering Chemistry
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/ie50593a024· OSTI ID:4253600
Liquid-liquid extraction has proved very useful for inorganic purifications in the atomic energy program. A convenient small extractor that would simulate counter-current vertical column extractors was desired for testing extraction conditions set up on new systems from distribution and other data of single-stage tests for preparing macro amounts of purified products. The equipment has been used in developing extraction systems for purifying niobium, tantalum, zirconium, hafnium, and yttrium. A batch of more than 100 pounds of hafnium containing less than 30 ppm of zirconium was prepared with the extractor described. This extractor is useful in studying behavior of components of a system during a multistage counter-current extraction. Actual production can be achieved.
Research Organization:
Iowa State Coll., Ames.
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
NSA Number:
NSA-13-013283
OSTI ID:
4253600
Journal Information:
Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, Journal Name: Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Journal Issue: 5 Vol. 51; ISSN 0019-7866
Country of Publication:
Country unknown/Code not available
Language:
English

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