PROCESS FOR PRODUCTION OF URANIUM HEXAFLUORIDE
Abstract
A process is described for the manufacture of uranium bexafluoride which consists in contacting an oxide of uranium simultaneously with elemental carbon and elemental fluorine at an elevated temperature, using a proportion of the carbon to the oxide about 50% in excess of that theoretically required to combine with f the oxygen as C0/.sub 2/. The process has the advantage that the uranium oxide is reduced by tbe carbon aad converted to the hexafluoride in a single operation.
- Inventors:
- Issue Date:
- OSTI Identifier:
- 4282160
- Patent Number(s):
- 2859096
- Assignee:
- U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
- Patent Classifications (CPCs):
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C - CHEMISTRY C01 - INORGANIC CHEMISTRY C01G - COMPOUNDS CONTAINING METALS NOT COVERED BY SUBCLASSES C01D OR C01F
- NSA Number:
- NSA-13-008387
- Resource Type:
- Patent
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: Orig. Receipt Date: 31-DEC-59
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- PATENTS; CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; CHEMICAL REACTIONS; FABRICATION; FLUORINE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; OXIDATION; PRODUCTION; QUANTITY RATIO; REDUCTION; TEMPERATURE; URANIUM FLUORIDES; URANIUM HEXAFLUORIDE; URANIUM OXIDES
Citation Formats
Fowler, R D. PROCESS FOR PRODUCTION OF URANIUM HEXAFLUORIDE. United States: N. p., 1958.
Web.
Fowler, R D. PROCESS FOR PRODUCTION OF URANIUM HEXAFLUORIDE. United States.
Fowler, R D. Sat .
"PROCESS FOR PRODUCTION OF URANIUM HEXAFLUORIDE". United States.
@article{osti_4282160,
title = {PROCESS FOR PRODUCTION OF URANIUM HEXAFLUORIDE},
author = {Fowler, R D},
abstractNote = {A process is described for the manufacture of uranium bexafluoride which consists in contacting an oxide of uranium simultaneously with elemental carbon and elemental fluorine at an elevated temperature, using a proportion of the carbon to the oxide about 50% in excess of that theoretically required to combine with f the oxygen as C0/.sub 2/. The process has the advantage that the uranium oxide is reduced by tbe carbon aad converted to the hexafluoride in a single operation.},
doi = {},
journal = {},
number = ,
volume = ,
place = {United States},
year = {1958},
month = {11}
}
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