B - Operations – Transporting – 01 – D
Patent
B - Operations, Transporting
01
D
204/171
B01D 59/42 (2006.01) B01D 15/08 (2006.01) B01D 57/02 (2006.01) B01D 59/38 (2006.01) B01D 59/50 (2006.01) G01N 27/447 (2006.01) G01N 30/58 (2006.01) G01N 30/60 (2006.01) G01N 30/02 (2006.01) G01N 30/34 (2006.01) G01N 30/44 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 2027358
The invention is both a system and method for continuously separating heavier from lighter isotopes of a particular element, such as zirconium. The system comprises a housing, a column assembly rotatably mounted with respect to the housing which includes a plurality of vertically oriented separation cells arranged in a circle, each of which contains a packing material, both a feed electrolyte source and a barren electrolyte source, each of which has an outlet mounted in the housing for continuously introducing either a feed electrolyte or a barren electrolyte into each of the cells as they rotate past the outlets, and upper and lower electrodes disposed over the upper and lower ends of the separation cells for, inducing the electro-migration of the lighter zirconium ions toward the lower ends of each of the separation cells. A drain assembly disposed beneath the column assembly continuously collects isotopic enriched electrolyte from the bottom ends of the separation cells. The speed of rotation of the column assembly is coordinated with the rate of eluent flow through the cells so that the same segments of the annular tray of the drain assembly continuously collect eluent enriched in a particular type of zirconium isotope.
Ferrari Harry Max
Jackovitz John Franklin
Snyder Thomas Stephen
Bereskin & Parr
Westinghouse Electric Corporation
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