Adsorbents and adsorption models for capture of Kr and Xe gas mixtures in fixed-bed columns
Abstract
Off-gases produced during the reprocessing of used nuclear fuel (UNF) include 129I2, 3HHO, 14CO2, 85Kr, and 135Xe, which are volatilized out into the off-gas. In order to meet regulatory requirements for reprocessing plant emissions, these gases must be captured and removed from the off-gas stream prior to off-gas emission. Of particular interest are the noble gases, Kr and Xe, which can be fairly difficult to remove from the off-gas due to their low chemical reactivity. Thus, this work is focused on utilizing engineered adsorbents, AgZ-PAN and HZ-PAN, to capture Kr and Xe from a mixed-gas stream at relatively low temperatures (191–295 K) and various flow rates (50–2000 mL/min). Isothermal data for Kr and Xe on each adsorbent are analyzed to produce the Langmuir parameters needed to model the mixture adsorption capacities at relevant temperatures using the Extended Langmuir model. Those parameters are then incorporated into a fixed-bed adsorption model developed in this work using the Mulitphysics Object-Oriented Simulation Environment (MOOSE). That model is used to simulate breakthrough times for Kr and Xe in packed columns of AgZ-PAN and HZ-PAN, ranging in length from 6 to 20 in., at relevant temperatures and flow rates. Breakthrough times varied from nearly instantaneous formore »
- Authors:
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- Georgia Inst. of Technology, Atlanta, GA (United States)
- Idaho National Lab. (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Georgia Inst. of Technology, Atlanta, GA (United States); Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Idaho National Lab. (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States); Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- US DOE-NE; USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1530817
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1529721; OSTI ID: 1531240
- Report Number(s):
- INL/JOU-19-53948-Rev000
Journal ID: ISSN 1385-8947
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC07-05ID14517; AC05-00OR22725
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Chemical Engineering Journal
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 375; Journal Issue: C; Journal ID: ISSN 1385-8947
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 11 NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE AND FUEL MATERIALS; MOOSE; OSPREY; discontinuous Galerkin; xenon; krypton; modeling; adsorption
Citation Formats
Ladshaw, Austin P., Wiechert, Alexander I., Welty, Amy K., Lyon, Kevin L., Law, Jack D., Jubin, Robert T., Tsouris, Costas, and Yiacoumi, Sotira. Adsorbents and adsorption models for capture of Kr and Xe gas mixtures in fixed-bed columns. United States: N. p., 2019.
Web. doi:10.1016/j.cej.2019.122073.
Ladshaw, Austin P., Wiechert, Alexander I., Welty, Amy K., Lyon, Kevin L., Law, Jack D., Jubin, Robert T., Tsouris, Costas, & Yiacoumi, Sotira. Adsorbents and adsorption models for capture of Kr and Xe gas mixtures in fixed-bed columns. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2019.122073
Ladshaw, Austin P., Wiechert, Alexander I., Welty, Amy K., Lyon, Kevin L., Law, Jack D., Jubin, Robert T., Tsouris, Costas, and Yiacoumi, Sotira. Tue .
"Adsorbents and adsorption models for capture of Kr and Xe gas mixtures in fixed-bed columns". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2019.122073. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1530817.
@article{osti_1530817,
title = {Adsorbents and adsorption models for capture of Kr and Xe gas mixtures in fixed-bed columns},
author = {Ladshaw, Austin P. and Wiechert, Alexander I. and Welty, Amy K. and Lyon, Kevin L. and Law, Jack D. and Jubin, Robert T. and Tsouris, Costas and Yiacoumi, Sotira},
abstractNote = {Off-gases produced during the reprocessing of used nuclear fuel (UNF) include 129I2, 3HHO, 14CO2, 85Kr, and 135Xe, which are volatilized out into the off-gas. In order to meet regulatory requirements for reprocessing plant emissions, these gases must be captured and removed from the off-gas stream prior to off-gas emission. Of particular interest are the noble gases, Kr and Xe, which can be fairly difficult to remove from the off-gas due to their low chemical reactivity. Thus, this work is focused on utilizing engineered adsorbents, AgZ-PAN and HZ-PAN, to capture Kr and Xe from a mixed-gas stream at relatively low temperatures (191–295 K) and various flow rates (50–2000 mL/min). Isothermal data for Kr and Xe on each adsorbent are analyzed to produce the Langmuir parameters needed to model the mixture adsorption capacities at relevant temperatures using the Extended Langmuir model. Those parameters are then incorporated into a fixed-bed adsorption model developed in this work using the Mulitphysics Object-Oriented Simulation Environment (MOOSE). That model is used to simulate breakthrough times for Kr and Xe in packed columns of AgZ-PAN and HZ-PAN, ranging in length from 6 to 20 in., at relevant temperatures and flow rates. Breakthrough times varied from nearly instantaneous for Kr in AgZ-PAN to 30 h for Xe in HZ-PAN. After the developed model was validated by comparisons with experimental breakthrough data, the model framework was used to simulate the performance of multiple fixed-bed columns connected in series.},
doi = {10.1016/j.cej.2019.122073},
journal = {Chemical Engineering Journal},
number = C,
volume = 375,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Jun 25 00:00:00 EDT 2019},
month = {Tue Jun 25 00:00:00 EDT 2019}
}
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Figure 1: Images of the HZ-PAN and Ag-PAN adsorbent particles used in this study. Many of them have irregular shapes and some have tail-like features that resulted from the rapid cooling after being piped directly into a water bath during formation.
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