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Discovering, Making, and Testing New Materials: SRNL’s Center For Hierarchical Waste Form Materials
Savannah River National Laboratory researchers are building on the laboratory’s legacy of using cutting-edge science to effectively immobilize nuclear waste in innovative ways. As part of the Center for Hierarchical Waste Form Materials, SRNL is leveraging its depth of experience in radiological waste management to explore new frontiers in the industry.
Shoji Takashima, Kenji Kotoh, Shotaro Moriyama, Takafumi Tsuge
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 60 | Number 4 | November 2011 | Pages 1436-1439
Detritiation and Isotope Separation | Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Tritium Science and Technology (Part 2) | doi.org/10.13182/FST11-A12701
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We have been studying the dynamic behavior of hydrogen isotopes flowing between viscous and molecular regions in an adsorbent packed-bed column, for the purpose of developing a pressure swing adsorption (PSA) process system for hydrogen isotope separation. This PSA system consists of adsorption, evacuating desorption and hydrogen replenishing processes. The kinetics in the adsorption process has been becoming to be predictable in theoretical simulation based on experimental results, but it is difficult as yet to simulate the dynamic behaviors in evaluating and replenishing processes because of the complicated geometry of passages in a packed-bed and the change of gas flow patterns between viscous and molecular regions depending on not only the pressure but also the dimension of passages. In the dynamics, the important factor should be known is the mass flow conductance in pellet packed-bed. In this work, we carried out the experiment for examining the dependence of the conductance on the diameter of particles packed in a column, since the geometrical and dimensional conditions of passages are affected by the size of packing pellets. From the experimental result and its analysis, we clarified the pressure and particle-size dependences of the conductance of hydrogen isotopes in spherical pellet packed-beds.