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E. Schonfeld, A. H. Kibbey
Nuclear Technology | Volume 3 | Number 6 | June 1967 | Pages 353-359
Technical Paper and Note | doi.org/10.13182/NT67-A27857
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Controlled reflux was studied as a method for improving the efficiency of removing strontium from solution by foam separation. Tests were performed with solutions containing 85S, 10−6 M Sr2+ carrier, and 90 to 100 ppm of the surfactant sodium dodecyl benzene sulfonate (NaDBS) in either distilled water or 0.005 M NaOH to 0.005 M Na2CO3 solution. Nearly constant feed rates were maintained at about 40 gal/ft2 of column cross section per hour. With these conditions, the volume reduction factor was increased to 3700 (from a value of ≈ 30 for nonrefluxing systems) and the strontium decontamination factor was in excess of 103. In general, the volume reduction was inversely proportional to the gas/liquid volume ratio but directly proportional to the percent of foam reflux; the strontium decontamination factor, however, did not change very much within the throughput range studied.