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Series operation of deionizers (TA 1-1644)

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:5416214
A test was performed in L Area (June 1967) to determine if loss of mixed bed deionizer life from radiation damage could be reduced by operating a cation bed ahead of the mixed bed deionizer. The cation deionizer removed about 95% of the radioactivity coming to it from the reactor. However, it caused premature conductivity breakthrough of the mixed bed because of sloughage of ionic fragments from the cation resin. Similar shortening of the anion resin life by series operation of separate cation and anion beds has been observed elsewhere in nonradioactive service.
Research Organization:
Du Pont de Nemours (E.I.) and Co., Aiken, SC (USA). Savannah River Plant
DOE Contract Number:
AC09-76SR00001
OSTI ID:
5416214
Report Number(s):
DOE/SR/00001-T16; ON: DE84005586
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English