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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 02, 2014
Filed:
Jun. 21, 2011
Nicolas Ghirelli, Marseilles, FR;
Silvano Tosti, Frascati, IT;
Pierre Trabuc, Venelles, FR;
Fabio Borgognoni, Iesi, IT;
Karine Liger, Pertuis, FR;
Alessia Santucci, Colonna, IT;
Xavier Lefebvre, Abingdon, GB;
Nicolas Ghirelli, Marseilles, FR;
Silvano Tosti, Frascati, IT;
Pierre Trabuc, Venelles, FR;
Fabio Borgognoni, Iesi, IT;
Karine Liger, Pertuis, FR;
Alessia Santucci, Colonna, IT;
Xavier Lefebvre, Abingdon, GB;
Abstract
A process for removal of tritium from materials that are contaminated thereby envisages the use of a detritiation reactor RT, in which the reaction for the removal of tritium from the waste takes place, the waste being recovered by a flow of moist inert gas in which an extremely low percentage of humidity is used. The heated waste releases a current of tritiated gases, the current of gases being removed from the reactor via the moist inert gas, which conveys it into a membrane reactor RM for decontamination. The membrane reactor, in fact, is able to remove selectively the tritium present in the mixture of gases: there is thus the dual advantage of purifying the mixture of gases and of recovering the tritium contained therein.