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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 28, 1992
Filed:
May. 10, 1991
Hani A Abodishish, Aiken, SC (US);
Douglas J Leavitt, Ogden, UT (US);
Westinghouse Electric Corp., Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Abstract
A scrub solution is made up for use in starting up a hafnium liquid-liquid extraction system. An aqueous zirconium oxychloride-containing solution is contacted with methyl isobutyl ketone containing less than 1 Molar thiocyanic acid. The aqueous solution is maintained at a chloride concentration of 1.6 to 3.5 Normal (as HCl) by addition of concentrated hydrochloric acid. Ammonium thiocyanate is added to the acidified aqueous stream to produce thiocyanic acid. The high acidity of the aqueous solution drives the thiocyanic acid into the methyl isobutyl ketone without the chloride anions having a depressing affect on the transfer. The thiocyanic acid-containing MIBK may then be used as a scrubbing solvent to start up the hafnium extraction system.