Advanced Hydride Laboratory

Conference · Sun Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1989

OSTI ID:5698113

Horen, A S

The Replacement Tritium Facility (RTF) is a $140 million reservoir loading and unloading facility using state-of-the-art technology, scheduled for completion in 1990 and startup in 1991. In the RTF, metal hydride technology will be used to store, separate, purify, pump, and compress hydrogen isotopes. In support of the RTF, a $3.2 million cold'' process demonstration facility began operation in November, 1987. The purpose of the Advanced Hydride Laboratory (AHL) is to demonstrate the RFT's metal hydride technology by integrating the various unit operations into an overall process. While much of the RTF's metal hydride technology had been demonstrated in laboratory bench-scale and pilot-scale units, none of the units had been operated together and integrated into an overall process.

• Research Organization: Westinghouse Savannah River Co., Aiken, SC (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: DOE; USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC09-89SR18035
• OSTI ID: 5698113
• Report Number(s): WSRC-MS-90-52; CONF-8910568--2; ON: DE92009454
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

08 HYDROGEN
080200 -- Hydrogen-- Storage
Transport & Handling
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE
360104 -- Metals & Alloys-- Physical Properties
37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
400202* -- Isotope Effects
Isotope Exchange
& Isotope Separation
ALLOYS
ALUMINIUM ALLOYS
CALCIUM ALLOYS
CHEMICAL REACTIONS
COMPRESSION
DIATOMACEOUS EARTH
ELEMENTS
FLUIDS
GASES
HELIUM
HYDRIDATION
HYDROGEN ISOTOPES
ISOTOPE SEPARATION
ISOTOPES
LANTHANUM ALLOYS
METALS
NICKEL ALLOYS
NICKEL BASE ALLOYS
NONMETALS
PALLADIUM
PLATINUM METALS
PUMPING
PURIFICATION
RARE EARTH ALLOYS
RARE GASES
SEPARATION PROCESSES
STORAGE
TRANSITION ELEMENTS