2 (30) 3. FRACTIONATION OF HEAVY HYDROGEN ISOTOPES IN DYNAMIC SYSTEMS

УДК  54.066:54.027 • Issue 2 (30) / 2019 • 26-32 pages

Pushkar’ov O. V., Sevruk  I. M., Demihov Y.M., Dolin V. V. Jr.

Pushkar’ov O. V., Phd (Geol.-Min.), Senior Research Officer., SE “Institute of Environmental Geochemistry of the NAS of Ukraine”, pushkarevigns@gmail.com

Sevruk  I. M., Phd (Geol ), S.Researcher, SE “Institute of Environmental Geochemistry of the NAS of Ukraine”,  igns219@gmail.com

Demihov Y.M., Phd (Geol.-Min.),, SE “Institute of Environmental Geochemistry of the NAS of Ukraine”

Dolin V. V. , Jr., Researcher,  SE “Institute of Environmental Geochemistry of the NAS of Ukraine”, dolinvitaliy@gmail.com

Abstract

The possibility of using mineral adsorbents for cleaning the moderator of heavy water reactors from tritium is determined. Three dynamic systems have been created using montmorilonite, sepiolite and palygorskite clays, and zeolite (systems M-Z, S-Z and P-Z) as composite membranes. At the first stage, deuterium-tritium water (DTO) was filtered through mineral membranes, and at the second stage, these membranes were washed with protium water (Н2О). In the process of such two-stage filtration, the effect of separation of tritium and deuterium in the filtrate was first established. At the first stage of the experiment, the content of deuterium and tritium in the DTO filtrate in the system with the M-Z membrane was equally reduced and at the end of the filtration was slightly more than 50% of the initial concentrations. The separation coefficient of heavy hydrogen isotopes in this system did not exceed KT = 0.99. When DTO was filtered through the C-Z membrane, the fraction of tritium in the filtrate at the end of filtration decreased by 10% relative to the initial concentration, which is less than the fraction of deuterium, and the hydrogen isotope separation coefficient was KT = 1.15. In the P-C system, the residual fraction of deuterium in the  DTO filtrate was 3% higher than the residual fraction of tritium and the hydrogen isotope separation coefficient was determined at the level of KT = 0.96. A different process is observed when filtering protium water (Н2О) through clay-zeolite adsorbents after their interaction with the DTO solution. In all the studied mineral adsorbents, the manifestations of fractionation of heavy hydrogen isotopes with coefficients KD = 13.2, 3.2 and 3.6 were established respectively for montmorillonite-zeolite, sepiolite-zeolite and palygorskite-zeolite composites with a predominant deuterium content in the filtrate, which indicates  the possibility of using clay-zeolite mineral adsorbents for the purification of heavy water from tritium.

Key words: tritium, deuterium, heavy water, fractionation, adsorbent, montmorillonite, sepiolite, palygorskite.

 

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