Masters Theses

Abstract

"The development of nuclear fission reactors to convert nuclear energy into electrical energy for use in industry, public utilities, military applications, and space exploration has resulted in ever increasing quantities of radioactive waste solutions. Significant reductions in nuclear fuel costs will be obtained when economical processes have been developed for recovery and purification of valuable fission products which are contained in radioactive waste solutions and are in demand for many research applications.

The United States Atomic Energy Commission has supported exhaustive studies to recover fission products by processes involving the more common unit operations such as extraction, distillation, crystallization, and ion exchange. This laboratory has been investigating electro dialytic separations of fission products for several years. This work has resulted in the fractionation of fission products into three groups. The purpose of this investigation was to study the separation of individual elements in these groups by electrodialysis using aminopolycarboxylic acids as chelating agents to effect separation. A large part of the investigation consisted of developing techniques to maintain the feed solutions at pH values where aminopolycarboxylic acids form stable complexes with the elements to be separated"--Introduction, p. 1

Advisor(s)

William H. Webb

Committee Member(s)

Hollis P. Leighly
Mailand R. Strunk
Jack M. Scrivner

Department(s)

Chemical and Biochemical Engineering

Degree Name

M.S. in Chemical Engineering

Publisher

Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy

Publication Date

1963

Pagination

vi, 73 pages

Note about bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 69-71)

Rights

© 1963 Harry C. Hershey, All rights reserved.

Document Type

Thesis - Open Access

File Type

text

Language

English

Thesis Number

T 1506

Print OCLC #

5953664

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