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Suggested Citation:"Front Matter." National Research Council. 1993. Ultrafast Chemical Separations. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9279.
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NUCLEAR SCIENCE SERIES

NAS-NS-3118

Radiochemical Techniques

ULTRAFAST CHEMICAL SEPARATIONS

by

Krishnaswamy Rengan

Department of Chemistry

Eastern Michigan University

Ypsilanti, Michigan 48197

and

Richard A. Meyer

Office of High Energy and Nuclear Physics

ER-23, U.S. Department of Energy

Washington, D.C. 20585

and

Nuclear Chemistry Division

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Prepared for the

Committee on Nuclear and Radiochemistry

Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology

Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications

National Research Council

National Academy Press
Washington, D.C.
1993

Suggested Citation:"Front Matter." National Research Council. 1993. Ultrafast Chemical Separations. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9279.
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Suggested Citation:"Front Matter." National Research Council. 1993. Ultrafast Chemical Separations. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9279.
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COMMITTEE ON NUCLEAR AND RADIOCHEMISTRY

RICHARD L. HAHN,

Brookhaven National Laboratory,

Chair

JOSEPH R. PETERSON,

University of Tennessee,

Vice Chair

FRED BASOLO,

Northwestern University

WILLIAM C. ECKELMAN,

The Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Institute

JOHN M. MATUSZEK,

New York State Health Department

ALICE C. MIGNEREY,

University of Maryland

HEINO NITSCHE,

Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory

J. KENNETH POGGENENBURG,

Hybritech, Inc.

IVOR L. PREISS,

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

JERRY B. WILHELMY,

Los Alamos National Laboratory

STEVEN W. YATES,

University of Kentucky

PEGGY J. POSEY, Staff Officer

Monograph Coordinators

J. KENNETH POGGENENBURG,

Hybritech, Inc.

STEVEN W. YATES,

University of Kentucky

BOARD ON CHEMICAL SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY

PETER B. DERVAN,

California Institute of Technology,

Co-Chair

EDWIN P. PRZYBYLOWICZ,

Eastman Kodak Company,

Co-Chair

PAUL S. ANDERSON,

Merck Sharp & Dohme Research Laboratories

ALEXIS T. BELL,

University of California, Berkeley

DAVID C. BONNER,

Premix, Inc.

PHILIP H. BRODSKY,

Monsanto Company

GREGORY R. CHOPPIN,

Florida State University

FRED P. CORSON,

Dow Chemical Company

MICHAEL P. DOYLE,

Trinity University

BERTRAM O. FRASER-REID,

Duke University

JOSEPH G. GORDON,

IBM Corporation

L. LOUIS HEGEDUS,

W.R. Grace & Company

KENDALL N. HOUK,

University of California, Los Angeles

DOUGLAS A. LAUFFENBERGER,

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

MARSHA I. LESTER,

University of Pennsylvania

W. CARL LINEBERGER,

University of Colorado, Boulder

ROYCE W. MURRAY,

University of North Carolina

JEANNE E. PEMBERTON,

University of Arizona

W. HARMON RAY,

University of Wisconsin

JOANNE STUBBE,

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

LARRY F. THOMPSON,

AT&T Bell Laboratories

DOUGLAS J. RABER, Director

PEGGY J. POSEY, Program Officer

SCOTT WEIDMAN, Program Officer

TAMAE M. WONG, Program Officer

SYBIL A. PAIGE, Administrative Associate

MARIA P. JONES, Administrative Secretary

KASANDRA D. GOWEN, Senior Secretary

TAÑA L. SPENCER, Secretary

Suggested Citation:"Front Matter." National Research Council. 1993. Ultrafast Chemical Separations. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9279.
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COMMISSION ON PHYSICAL SCIENCES, MATHEMATICS, AND APPLICATIONS

RICHARD N. ZARE,

Stanford University,

Chair

RICHARD S. NICHOLSON,

American Association for the Advancement of Science,

Vice Chair

STEPHEN L. ADLER,

The Institute for Advanced Study

JOHN A. ARMSTRONG,

IBM Corporation (Ret.)

SYLVIA T. CEYER,

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

AVNER FRIEDMAN,

University of Minnesota

SUSAN L. GRAHAM,

University of California, Berkeley

ROBERT J. HERMANN,

United Technologies Corporation

HANS MARK,

The University of Texas at Austin

CLAIRE E. MAX,

Lawrence Livermore Laboratory

CHRISTOPHER F. MCKEE,

University of California, Berkeley

JAMES W. MITCHELL,

AT&T Bell Laboratories

JEROME SACKS,

National Institute of Statistical Sciences

A. RICHARD SEEBASS III,

University of Colorado

CHARLES P. SLICHTER,

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

ALVIN W. TRIVELPIECE,

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

NORMAN METZGER, Executive Director

Suggested Citation:"Front Matter." National Research Council. 1993. Ultrafast Chemical Separations. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9279.
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FOREWORD

The Committee on Nuclear and Radiochemistry is one of a number of committees working under the Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology of the Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications of the National Research Council. Its members are drawn from academic, industrial, and government laboratories and represent the areas of nuclear chemistry, radiochemistry, and nuclear medicine.

The committee has concerned itself with those areas of nuclear science that involve the chemist, such as the collection and distribution of radiochemical procedures, specialized techniques and instrumentation, the place of nuclear and radiochemistry in college and university programs, the training of nuclear and radiochemists, radiochemistry in environmental science, and radionuclides in nuclear medicine. A major interest of the committee is the publication of the Nuclear Science Series monographs on Radiochemistry, Radiochemical Techniques, and Nuclear Medicine.

The committee has endeavored to present monographs that will be of maximum use to the working scientist. Each monograph presents pertinent information required for radiochemical work with an individual element or with a specialized technique or with the use of radionuclides in nuclear medicine.

Experts on the various subjects have been recruited to write the monographs. The U.S. Department of Energy sponsors the printing of the series. Support for the present monograph also was provided by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

This monograph is an up-to-date review and compilation of radiochemical separations that must be accomplished in a very short time. The present monograph, one of the series on Radiochemical Techniques, is published as part of our continuing effort to update, revise, and expand the previously published monographs to keep them current and relevant.

Richard L. Hahn, Chair

Committee on Nuclear and Radiochemistry

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PREFACE

A monograph entitled Rapid Radiochemical Procedures by Kusaka and Meinke was published in 1961. In the three decades since its publication, the requirement to study nuclides with half-lives in the sub-seconds range has led to entirely new approaches to separation procedures—new techniques, concepts, and automation have evolved. In the present monograph, Ultrafast Chemical Separations, we review these developments and provide a review of present-day separation techniques. The monograph is presented in two parts. In Part I, we review the general techniques used in radiochemical separations, and we discuss, with examples, autobatch and continuous separation techniques used for nuclides with very short half-lives. In Part II, we present a collection of procedures, arranged according to elements. The elements for which procedures are included are shown in a periodic table format at the beginning of Part II. Each entry also shows the time of separation for the fastest procedure for that element.

We have received generous assistance from a number of individuals during the preparation of this monograph. We are grateful to Professors Herrmann, Denschlag, and Trautmann, as well as the rest of the nuclear chemists at the University of Mainz, for reviewing the monograph and for providing a number of valuable suggestions. We are also thankful to Dr. Gehrke of the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory and Professor Skarnemark of Chalmers University for providing prints of figures and giving permission to reproduce them. We are indebted to the staff of the Technical Information Division of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) for their assistance in searching the literature and to Yves Dardenne, a graduate of Eastern Michigan University.

Help was provided by a large number of individuals in typing, preparation of figures, and technical editing. We would like to recognize the contribution of Debbie Wilson, Becky Gonzalez, Sara Smith, and Pat Parks in this endeavor. We are grateful for the excellent technical editing done by Coralyn K. McGregor and Jane Olivera of LLNL.

One of us (KR) would like to thank the Graduate School at Eastern Michigan University for the support provided through the Faculty Research Fellowship Program and the Chemistry Department of Eastern Michigan University. Last, but hardly least, we wish to thank the LLNL Nuclear Chemistry Division leaders and Dr. Christopher Gatrousis, associate director for chemistry and materials science at LLNL, whose efforts initiated the development of this book. One of us (RAM) is indebted to Professor Oliver Robert Brown, provost, Montgomery College (Takoma Park), for providing the environs for the final completion of this book.

This monograph is dedicated to three American pioneers in nuclear and radiochemistry: Dr. Peter Cooper Stevenson (deceased) of LLNL, Professor (emeritus) Arthur C. Wahl of Washington University, and Professor W. Wayne Meinke (formerly of the University of Michigan and a past chairman of the Subcommittee on Radiochemistry, National Academy of Sciences).

Krishnaswamy Rengan

Ypsilanti, Michigan

Richard A. Meyer

Germantown, Maryland

December 1992

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CONTENTS

 PART I:

 

SEPARATION TECHNIQUES

 
   

1.  Introduction

 

3

   

2.  Batch Processes

 

6

   

2.1  Precipitation

 

7

   

2.2  Adsorption and Isotopic Exchange

 

10

   

2.3  Ion-Exchange Techniques

 

13

   

2.4  Liquid-Liquid Extraction

 

16

   

2.5  High-Performance Liquid Chromatography

 

24

   

2.6  Distillation and Volatilization

 

27

   

2.7  Thermochromatography

 

30

   

2.8  Electrophoresis

 

32

   

3.  Automated Processes

 

35

   

3.1  Comparison of Efficiencies of Autobatch and Continuous Processes

 

35

   

4.  Autobatch Techniques

 

37

   

4.1  Autobatch Techniques for the Separation of Silver Isotopes

 

40

   

4.2  Technetium by Solvent Extraction

 

40

   

4.3  Palladium by Solvent Extraction

 

42

   

4.4  Arsenic and Antimony by Volatile-Hydride Production

 

43

   

4.5  Autobatch Separation of Individual Lanthanide Fission Products

 

45

   

4.6  Separation of Transplutonium Elements

 

49

   

5.  Delivery Systems for Continuous Techniques

 

49

   

5.1  Gas-Jet Systems

 

49

   

5.2  Transport Time

 

53

   

5.3  Examples of Gas-Jet Systems

 

56

   

6.  Continuous Liquid-Phase Chemical Separations

 

59

   

6.1  High-Speed Centrifuge for Phase Separation

 

59

   

6.2  Transfer from Gas-Jet System to Aqueous Phase

 

63

   

6.3  Examples

 

63

   

7.  Continuous Gas-Phase Chemistry

 

70

   

7.1  Production Outside the Target Chamber

 

71

   

7.2  Production in the Target Chamber

 

74

   

8.  Future of Ultrafast Chemistry

 

77

   

9.  References

 

79

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