Study on the effects of sonication on reactive precipitation of ammonium uranyl carbonate from pure uranyl nitrate solution
| Autor: | S.K. Satpati, Shrishma Paik, D.K. Singh, Manjulata Sahu, S.K. Gupta |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Ammonium carbonate
Nuclear and High Energy Physics Materials science Precipitation (chemistry) Sonication Ammonium uranyl carbonate chemistry.chemical_compound Crystallinity Nuclear Energy and Engineering chemistry Uranyl nitrate General Materials Science Particle size Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy Nuclear chemistry |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Nuclear Materials. 557:153222 |
| ISSN: | 0022-3115 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jnucmat.2021.153222 |
| Popis: | In the present work, the influence of sonication on the reactive precipitation of ammonium uranyl carbonate (AUC) was investigated. Experiments were performed between uranyl nitrate pure solution (UNPS) and ammonium carbonate solution in a stirred vessel with ultrasound horn of 35 KHz. The prepared AUC powder was characterised by laser diffraction particle size analysis, surface area analysis, XRD, SEM, FTIR and Raman Spectroscopy. It was found that ultrasonic irradiation increases the precipitation kinetics and modifies the morphology of the crystals produced. The mean particle size was decreased with the increase in ultrasonic power and powders with more surface area are obtained at higher intensity ultrasound power. SEM study reveals more uniform and regular prismatic crystals of AUC during sonication compared to silent conditions. XRD results also indicate more crystalline powder of AUC in sonochemical mode compared to that prepared by conventional precipitation methods. Thus, the sonochemical technique suggested an improved quality of the precipitate of AUC in terms of physical morphology, surface area, crystallinity and homogeneity amenable for downstream process steps for the fuel preparation methods. |
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