SOHIO process legacy waste treatment: Uranium recovery using ion exchange

Richard I. Foster; James T.M. Amphlett; Kwang-Wook Kim; Timothy Kerry; Keunyoung Lee; Clint A. Sharrad

Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, Vol.81, 144-152, January, 2020

DOI10.1016/j.jiec.2019.09.001 Export Citation

SOHIO process legacy waste treatment: Uranium recovery using ion exchange

Richard I. Foster^{1, 2, †}, James T.M. Amphlett^{3, 2}, Kwang-Wook Kim¹, Timothy Kerry^{4, 5}, Keunyoung Lee¹, and Clint A. Sharrad⁴

¹Decommissioning Technology Research Division, Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, Daedeok-daero 989-111, Yuseong, Daejeon, 305-353, Republic of Korea
²School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Sciences, University of Manchester, United Kingdom, Korea
³Department of Nuclear and Quantum Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea
⁴School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Sciences, University of Manchester, United Kingdom, UK
⁵Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Faculty of Mechanical, Maritime and Material Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

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The feasibility of employing ion-exchange resins for the selective removal of uranium from a complex waste effluent has been investigated. The source of the effluent is a treatment process to reduce the volume of a spent uranium containing catalyst prior to its immobilisation and disposal in South Korea. Commercial anion exchange and chelation resins have been screened, along with an in-house synthesized polyamine functionalized resin. The Langmuir isotherm model produced the best fit for UO2 2 + binding to all resins, with Purolite MTS957, a mixed sulfonic/phosphonic acid functionalised resin, showing the highest equilibrium adsorption capacity for UO2 2+, 96.15 mg g-1. The Modified Dose- Response Model was found to adequately represent breakthrough across all flow rates used and for all resins tested under dynamic testing conditions. The maximum uranium loading capacities under dynamic conditions for simulant and real wastes were established as 131.52 mg g-1 and 68.62 mg g-1, respectively. Purolite MTS957 effectively decontaminated the real effluent to uranium levels below the Korean release limit of 1 mg L-1. Over 99.9% uranium was successfully eluted from the resin bed in under 20 BV with a mixed sodium carbonate/sulfate eluent.

Keywords:Ion exchange;Uranium;Effluent treatment;Waste catalyst;SOHIO process

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