Non-Ideal Behavior in Solvent Extraction

Peter Zalupski

关键词: CHEMISTRY;    DISTRIBUTION;    ELECTROLYTES;    EUROPIUM;    FORECASTING;    MIXTURES;    PHYSICAL PROPERTIES;    SIMULATION;    SOLVENT EXTRACTION;    SOLVENTS;    THERMODYNAMIC MODEL fuel cycle separations;    modeling;    solvent extraction;    SXFIT;   

DOI  :  10.2172/1034812
RP-ID  :  INL/EXT-11-23462
PID  :  OSTI ID: 1034812
Others  :  TRN: US1200948

学科分类：化学（综合）

美国|英语

来源: SciTech Connect

【 摘 要 】

This report presents a summary of the work performed to meet FCR&D level 3 milestone M31SW050801, 'Complete the year-end report summarizing FY11 experimental and modeling activities.' This work was carried out under the auspices of the Non-Ideality in Solvent Extraction Systems FCR&D work package. The report summarizes our initial considerations of potential influences that non-ideal chemistry may impose on computational prediction of outcomes in solvent extraction systems. The report is packaged into three separate test cases where a robustness of the prediction by SXFIT program is under scrutiny. The computational exercises presented here emphasize the importance of accurate representation of both an aqueous and organic mixtures when modeling liquid-liquid distribution systems. Case No.1 demonstrates that non-ideal behavior of HDEHP in aliphatic diluents, such as n-dodecane, interferes with the computation. Cases No.2 and No.3 focus on the chemical complexity of aqueous electrolyte mixtures. Both exercises stress the need for an improved thermodynamic model of an aqueous environment present in the europium distribution experiments. Our efforts for year 2 of this project will focus on the improvements of aqueous and non-aqueous solution models using fundamental physical properties of mixtures acquired experimentally in our laboratories.