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Tritium Isotope Separation Using Adsorption-Distillation Column
Volume 48 · Number 1 · July/August 2005 · Pages 140-143
Technical Paper · Tritium Science and Technology - Tritium Science and Technology - Detritiation, Purification, and Isotope Separation
Satoshi Fukada
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In order to miniaturize the height of a distillation tower for the detritiation of waste water from fusion reactors, two experiments were conducted: (1) liquid frontal chromatography of tritium water eluting through an adsorption column and (2) water distillation using a column packed with adsorbent particles. The height of the distillation tower depends on the height equivalent to a theoretical plate, HETP, and the equilibrium isotope separation factor,  H-Tequi. The adsorption action improved not only HETP but also H-Tequi. Since the adsorption-distillation method proposed here can shorten the tower height with keeping advantages of the distillation, it may bring an excellent way for miniaturizing the distillation tower to detritiate a large amount of waste water from fusion reactors.
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