Combined Electrolysis Catalytic Exchange (CECE)

Technical Report · Tue Sep 30 04:00:00 EDT 1980

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/5088752· OSTI ID:5088752

Ellis, R E; Mills, T K; Rogers, M L

Starting from an effort to control airborne emissions, the Mound tritium containment program has evolved to include development of the Combined Electrolysis Catalytic Exchange (CECE) process. This process separates tritiated aqueous streams into detritiated water and an enriched hydrogen stream that is suitable for use by other tritium recovery processes. Experimentation has shown that the process performs as predicted by bench-scale measurements, and that available process components exhibit acceptable resistance to damage by radiation from tritium exposure. Planned future efforts are concentrated on finalizing automatic control of the process and on developing feed treatment methods for the protection of process components.

• Research Organization: Mound Facility, Miamisburg, OH (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC04-76DP00053
• OSTI ID: 5088752
• Report Number(s): MLM-2774
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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12 MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES
AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS
BENCH-SCALE EXPERIMENTS
CATALYSTS
DISPERSIONS
ELECTROLYSIS
FUNCTIONAL MODELS
HEAVY WATER
HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS
LABELLED COMPOUNDS
LYSIS
MANAGEMENT
MIXTURES
OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
PILOT PLANTS
PROCESSING
RADIOACTIVE WASTE PROCESSING
RECOVERY
SOLUTIONS
TRITIUM COMPOUNDS
TRITIUM RECOVERY
WASTE MANAGEMENT
WASTE PROCESSING
WATER