Process for recovering niobium from uranium-niobium alloys

Wallace, Steven A; Creech, Edward T; Northcutt, Walter G

Title: Process for recovering niobium from uranium-niobium alloys

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Abstract

Niobium is recovered from scrap uranium-niobium alloy by melting the scrap with tin, solidifying the billet thus formed, heating the billet to combine niobium with tin therein, placing the billet in hydrochloric acid to dissolve the uranium and leave an insoluble residue of niobium stannide, then separating the niobium stannide from the acid.

Inventors:

Wallace, Steven A ^[1]; Creech, Edward T ^[2]; Northcutt, Walter G ^[2]

Knoxville, TN
Oak Ridge, TN

Issue Date:: 1983-01-01

Research Org.:: Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

OSTI Identifier:: 864758

Patent Number(s):: 4412860

Assignee:: Wallace; Steven A. (Knoxville, TN); Creech; Edward T. (Oak Ridge, TN); Northcutt; Walter G. (Oak Ridge, TN)

Patent Classifications (CPCs):: Y - NEW / CROSS SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES Y10 - TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC Y10S - TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS

C - CHEMISTRY C22 - METALLURGY C22B - PRODUCTION AND REFINING OF METALS

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Y - NEW / CROSS SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES Y10 - TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC Y10S - TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
Y10S505/815 - Process of making per se

C - CHEMISTRY C22 - METALLURGY C22B - PRODUCTION AND REFINING OF METALS
C22B34/24 - Obtaining niobium or tantalum

Y - NEW / CROSS SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES Y02 - TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE Y02P - CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES IN THE PRODUCTION OR PROCESSING OF GOODS
Y02P10/20 - Process efficiency

C - CHEMISTRY C22 - METALLURGY C22B - PRODUCTION AND REFINING OF METALS
C22B7/00 - Working up raw materials other than ores, e.g. scrap, to produce non-ferrous metals and compounds thereof

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DOE Contract Number:: W-7405-ENG-26

Resource Type:: Patent

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: process; recovering; niobium; uranium-niobium; alloys; recovered; scrap; alloy; melting; solidifying; billet; formed; heating; combine; therein; placing; hydrochloric; acid; dissolve; uranium; leave; insoluble; residue; stannide; separating; hydrochloric acid; niobium alloys; niobium alloy; uranium-niobium alloy; /75/423/505/

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                    Wallace, Steven A, Creech, Edward T, and Northcutt, Walter G. Process for recovering niobium from uranium-niobium alloys.  United States: N. p., 1983. 
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