Journal
ANNALS OF NUCLEAR ENERGY
Volume 150, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.anucene.2020.107876
Keywords
Uranium wastewater from real uranium plant; Uranium Removal; Pilot-scale Ultrasonic reactor
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- Yunnan Provincial Science and technology key project [2017FA026]
- Yunnan Ten Thousand Talents Plan Young & Elite Talents Project
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51404115]
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This study investigated the removal of uranium from uranium wastewater using industrial iron powder in a pilot-scale ultrasonic reactor. The results showed that ultrasonic technique was effective in reducing uranium concentration, highlighting its environmental benefits and contribution to water cycle realization.
Uranium removal from uranium wastewater has been successfully carried out on a laboratory scale. However, increasing uranium removal with industrial iron powder is not an easy task, and attempts to do so have reportedly not been entirely successful. To improve uranium removal efficiency from uranium wastewater produced by actual uranium plant, uranium removal using industrial iron powder in a pilotscale ultrasonic reactor was studied in this paper. A pilot-scale system was designed, built, and operated based on the process of removal of uranium from the uranium-containing wastewater produced in actual uranium plant by employing industrial iron powder in the ultrasonic field. All of the incoming and outgoing process streams were sampled, tested and recorded to calculate the process uranium removal efficiency. The results showed that ultrasonic technique could be applied as an effective way to remove uranium. Uranium plant wastewater with an uranium content of 300 mu g/L was mixed with the uranium raffinate with uranium content of 10 mg/L to reach pH of 3.28. 1 kg of industrial iron powder was added to each cubic meter of uranium plant wastewater, the uranium concentration dropped to 8.9 mu g/L with 6 min ultrasonic. This was extremely beneficial to the environment and realized the water cycle. (C) 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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