81891 - A New Class of Solvents for TRU Dissolution and Separation: Ionic Liquids
Through the current EMSP funding, solvent extraction technologies based on liquid-liquid partitioning of TRU to an Ionic Liquid phase containing conventional complexants has been shown to be viable. The growing understanding of the role that the different components of an ionic liquid can have on the partitioning mechanism, and on the nature of the subsequent dissolved species indicates strongly that ionic liquids are not necessarily direct replacements for volatile or otherwise hazardous organic solvents. Separations and partitioning can be exceptionally complex with competing solvent extraction, cation, anion and sacrificial ion exchange mechanisms are all important, depending on the selection of components for formation of the ionic liquid phase, and that control of these competing mechanisms can be utilized to provide new, alternative separations schemes.
- Research Organization:
- Robin D. Rogers (US)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC); BER (US)
- DOE Contract Number:
- FG07-01ER63266
- OSTI ID:
- 835020
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: PBD: 10 Dec 2004
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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