Engineering Separations Unit Operations for Nuclear Processing

✍ Scribed by Reid Peterson (Editor)

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2019
• Leaves: 345
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Engineering Separations Unit Operations for Nuclear Processing provides insight into the fundamentals of separations in nuclear materials processing not covered in typical texts.

This book integrates fuel cycle and waste processing into a single, coherent approach, demonstrating that the principles from one field can and should be applied to the other. It provides historical perspectives on nuclear materials processing, current assessment and challenges, and how past challenges were overcome. It also provides understanding of the engineering principles associated with handling nuclear materials.

This book is aimed at researchers, graduate students, and professionals in the fields of chemical engineering, mechanical engineering, nuclear engineering, and materials engineering.

✦ Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Overview of Process Flowsheets ………………………………………………….1

Reid A. Peterson

Chapter 2 Uranium Fuel Dissolution ………………………………………………………… 11

Calvin H. Delegard

Chapter 3 Precipitation and Crystallization Processes in Reprocessing,

Plutonium Separation, Purification, and Finishing, Chemical

Recovery, and Waste Treatment ………………………………………………… 51

Calvin H. Delegard and Reid A. Peterson

Chapter 4 Solvent Extraction in the Nuclear Fuel Cycle ……………………………. 145

Gabriel B. Hall, Susan E. Asmussen, and Amanda J. Casella

Chapter 5 Filtration ………………………………………………………………………………. 189

Philip P. Schonewill

Chapter 6 Ion Exchange ………………………………………………………………………… 251

Reid A. Peterson, Garrett Brown, and Amy M. Rovira

Chapter 7 Non-aqueous Processing …………………………………………………………305

Michael F. Simpson and Andrew M. Casella