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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 20, 2006
Filed:
Sep. 10, 2001
Noël Ozanne, Grenoble, FR;
Marc Lionel Lemaire, Villeurbanne, FR;
Alain Jean-louis Guy, Pontcarre, FR;
Jacques Henri Foos, Orsay, FR;
Stéphane Pellet-rostaing, Villeurbanne, FR;
Frédéric Chitry, Villeurbanne, FR;
Noël Ozanne, Grenoble, FR;
Marc Lionel Lemaire, Villeurbanne, FR;
Alain Jean-Louis Guy, Pontcarre, FR;
Jacques Henri Foos, Orsay, FR;
Stéphane Pellet-Rostaing, Villeurbanne, FR;
Frédéric Chitry, Villeurbanne, FR;
Compagnie Europeenne du Zirconium CEZUS, Courbevoie, FR;
Abstract
A method for separating a metal (a) from a metal (2), preferably zirconium from hafnium, which consists in dissolving said metals in an aqueous solution wherein said metals are in a state preventing them from passing through a nanofiltration membrane; treating the aqueous medium with a ligand, for example EDTA, which is complexed with metal (1) and/or metal (2), then in passing the resulting treated medium on a filtering membrane allowing through the ligand-metal complexes, but retaining the metals not complexed with the ligand.