EP0043401A1 - Procédé et appareil pour éliminer le tritium d'un mélange gazeux - Google Patents

Procédé et appareil pour éliminer le tritium d'un mélange gazeux Download PDF

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EP0043401A1
EP0043401A1 EP81101653A EP81101653A EP0043401A1 EP 0043401 A1 EP0043401 A1 EP 0043401A1 EP 81101653 A EP81101653 A EP 81101653A EP 81101653 A EP81101653 A EP 81101653A EP 0043401 A1 EP0043401 A1 EP 0043401A1
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Heinrich Dr. Dipl.-Chem. Weichselgartner
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    • G21—NUCLEAR PHYSICS; NUCLEAR ENGINEERING
    • G21F—PROTECTION AGAINST X-RADIATION, GAMMA RADIATION, CORPUSCULAR RADIATION OR PARTICLE BOMBARDMENT; TREATING RADIOACTIVELY CONTAMINATED MATERIAL; DECONTAMINATION ARRANGEMENTS THEREFOR
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  • the present invention relates to a method according to the preamble of claim 1. Furthermore, the invention relates to devices for performing such methods.
  • gaseous tritium (T 2 ) is produced, which is known to be radioactive and must therefore be removed from the atmosphere of the work space in question or the like.
  • a final concentration of some 10 -5 Ci / m 3 air can be achieved in this way. In practice, however, one often has to be content with some 10 -4 Ci / m 3 .
  • the present invention is accordingly based on the object of specifying methods and devices with which tritium can be removed from a gas mixture more completely than was previously possible.
  • the known oxidation process in which the tritium is oxidized to water is replaced or supplemented by a reduction process or hydrogenation process which provides an easily separable, in particular liquid or solid, reaction product.
  • the reaction of tritium with oxygen should not fall under the terms of reduction or hydrogenation processes.
  • the tritium can be removed with particular advantage from a gas mixture by hydrogenation of unsaturated organic compounds, in particular unsaturated carboxylic acids.
  • unsaturated monocarboxylic acids are used with particular advantage, and the hydrogenation can advantageously be carried out catalytically.
  • Unsaturated fatty acids in particular those having 5 to 20 carbon atoms, are preferably used.
  • the linolenic acid C 17 H 29 -COOH has three double bonds: and the linoleic acid C 17 H 31 -COOH two of which: both are converted into stearic acid CH 3 - (CH 2 ) 16 -COOH during the hydrogenation. If these unsaturated monocarboxylic acids are hydrogenated with tritium, the tritium is firmly bound in the stearic acid, ie one or more of the CH 2 groups T contain instead of H.
  • the hydrogenation process can be controlled in such a way that the tritiated stearic acid is broken down by the incorporation of the tritium into fragments with a shorter chain length and different physical properties than the long-chain C 17 fatty acids.
  • This has the great advantage that the tritium-containing reaction products can be separated continuously or discontinuously from the compounds not reacted with tritium and removed from the hydrogenation device as a result of different solubility, density or melting and boiling points. This means that a fresh reaction partner is always available for the hydrogenation and only relatively small amounts of tritium-containing, radioactive reaction products are formed.
  • a fixed bed, a fluidized bed, a liquid or an emulsion column can be used as the hydrogenation device or column.
  • the method and the devices according to the invention are outstandingly suitable for the purification of exhaust air from work clearing and for circulating air cleaning of closed systems, such as inert gas alove boxes.
  • closed systems such as inert gas alove boxes.
  • autoxidation of the unsaturated fatty acids which are preferably used cannot take place because of the absence of air-oxygen, so the effectiveness cannot be reduced (no high 'blind consumption' of unsaturated fatty acids, no resinification, etc.).
  • the lowest T concentrations can be continuously eliminated in inert gas containers.
  • a device for performing the method according to the invention is shown schematically.
  • the device serves to clean the atmosphere in a closed work space 10, which is shown as a so-called glovebox.
  • the atmosphere in the closed space 10 is circulated by a fan.
  • the gas from the room 10 flows through an extraction line 14, an activity measuring device 16, a hydrogenation device 18, which is connected to a regeneration device 20, then through another activity measuring device 22 and finally through the blower 12 and a return line 24 back into the room 10.
  • the atmosphere in room 10 can consist of an inert gas, in particular an inert gas such as argon.
  • the hydrogenation device 18 can contain a fluidized bed or a fixed bed, solution or emulsion column.
  • the hydrogenation device preferably contains an unsaturated fatty acid and the regeneration device 20 serves for the separation of tritium-containing reaction products.
  • the hydrogenation device 18 can also have a known oxidizing device 26, which contains a catalytic furnace 28 and a molecular sieve column 30 and can also be designed in a known manner.
  • the aim should therefore be to improve the mixing of the gas phase with the liquid phase, for example by pumping, atomizing or similar measures.

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EP81101653A 1980-07-04 1981-03-06 Procédé et appareil pour éliminer le tritium d'un mélange gazeux Expired EP0043401B1 (fr)

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DE3025494A DE3025494C2 (de) 1980-07-04 1980-07-04 Verfahren zum Entfernen von Tritium aus einem Gasgemisch
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JP (1) JPS5717898A (fr)
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US4882093A (en) * 1987-09-09 1989-11-21 Commissariat A L'energie Atomique Process and installation for the treatment of solid organic waste contaminated by tritium
EP0265744A3 (fr) * 1986-10-28 1990-05-02 NTG Neue Technologien GmbH & Co. KG Piège à base de solide organique pour l'adsorption de tritium (T) d'un courant de mélange de gaz

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EP0265744A3 (fr) * 1986-10-28 1990-05-02 NTG Neue Technologien GmbH & Co. KG Piège à base de solide organique pour l'adsorption de tritium (T) d'un courant de mélange de gaz
US4882093A (en) * 1987-09-09 1989-11-21 Commissariat A L'energie Atomique Process and installation for the treatment of solid organic waste contaminated by tritium

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