Oxidation of Tritiated Organic Liquid Waste

Braet, Johan; Bruggeman, A.

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“…Several techniques for the decontamination of TOW have been reported, including vacuum degassing at room or elevated temperatures [15], air-blowing [16], vacuum distillation [16, 17], acid/base- or Raney-nickel-catalyzed isotopic exchange [17, 18], reaction with metallic sodium [19], direct oxidation of the entire oil [20], and adsorption [12, 16, 21]. Because the contents of both volatile tritiated components and easily exchangeable (labile) tritium in TOW are typically low, the methods based on the removal of these components are rather inefficient.…”

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Solid phase extraction of tritiated contaminants from tritium-containing waste oils

Olejniczak

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Olejniczak

et al. 2016

J Radioanal Nucl Chem

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A solid phase extraction method for removing polar tritiated contaminants from tritium-containing waste oils has been developed. The composition of the degradation products present in the waste oil was determined. The results indicated that upon exposure to tritium gas, fragment methyl ketones, carboxylic acids, and lactones were the main polar products of the mineral-based oil oxidation. The nonpolar fragmentation products included n-alkanes, monomethylalkanes, and acyclic isoprenoids and were analogous to those formed during -irradiation of the oil. Various polar and nonpolar fragmentation products containing an isoprenoid skeleton were found to be formed via an oxidative/radiation scission of long-chain acyclic isoprenoids.Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (doi:10.1007/s10967-016-4953-8) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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