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Kinetics of fluorination of metallic molybdenum with elementary fluorine
Rybakov,Seredenko,Orekhov,Mironov
, p. 1929 - 1934 (2004)
The kinetics of the heterogeneous reaction of metallic molybdenum with elementary fluorine under conditions close to those used in actual technological practice at a concentration of fluorine in the gas mixture equal to 20-50 vol % was studied. The kinetic parameters were evaluated using the Arrhenius equation. A regression equation was obtained using the statistical method of experimental design for practical calculations of the rate of fluorination of metallic molybdenum with elementary fluorine. This equation makes it possible to calculate the fluorination rate at any point of the factor space, at fluorine concentrations of 30-50 vol % and initial temperatures of 250-350°C.
Separation of metallic residues from the dissolution of a high-burnup BWR fuel using nitrogen trifluoride
McNamara, Bruce K.,Buck, Edgar C.,Soderquist, Chuck Z.,Smith, Frances N.,Mausolf, Edward J.,Scheele, Randall D.
supporting information, p. 1 - 8 (2014/05/06)
Nitrogen trifluoride (NF3) was used to fluorinate the metallic residue from the dissolution of a high burnup, boiling water reactor fuel (~70 MWd/kgU). The washed residue included the noble-metal phase (containing ruthenium, rhodium, palladium, technetium, and molybdenum), smaller amounts of zirconium, selenium, tellurium, and silver, along with trace quantities of plutonium, uranium, cesium, cobalt, europium, and americium, likely as their oxides. Exposing the noble metal phase to 10% NF3 in argon, between 400 and 550 °C, removed molybdenum and technetium near 400 °C as their volatile fluorides, and ruthenium near 500 °C as its volatile fluoride. The events were thermally and temporally distinct and the conditions specified provide a recipe to separate these transition metals from each other and from the nonvolatile residue. Depletion of the volatile fluorides resulted in substantial exothermicity. Thermal excursion behavior was recorded with the thermal gravimetric instrument operated in a non-adiabatic, isothermal mode; conditions that typically minimize heat release. Physical characterization of the noble-metal phase and its thermal behavior are consistent with high kinetic velocity reactions encouraged by the nanoparticulate phase or perhaps catalytic influences of the mixed platinum metals with nearly pure phase structure. Post-fluorination, only two products were present in the residual nonvolatile fraction. These were identified as a nano-crystalline, metallic palladium cubic phase and a hexagonal rhodium trifluoride (RhF3) phase. The two phases were distinct as the sub-μm crystallites of metallic palladium were in contrast to the RhF3 phase, which grew from the parent, nano-crystalline noble-metal phase during fluorination, to acicular crystals exceeding 20-μm in length.
Chemical interaction of fluoropolymers with transition metals
Tarasov,Alikhanian,Arkhangel'Skii
, p. 809 - 813 (2009/12/01)
Chemical interaction of transition metals (Mo, W, Ta, Nb, and Ti) with a tetrafluoroethylene-vinylidene fluoride (TFE-VDF) copolymer (21 mol % TFE + 79 mol % VDF) has been studied by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and mass spectrometry. The DSC c