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FUSION ENGINEERING AND DESIGN
Volume 84, Issue 7-11, Pages 1108-1112Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.fusengdes.2009.01.052
Keywords
Hydrogen-isotope separation; Adsorption; Molecular sieve; Sieving; Confinement; Tritium
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Synthetic zeolite 3A has the molecular-sieving windows of nominal diameter 0.3 nm in its crystal lattice framework, which obstruct the crystalline adsorption of molecules of diameter larger than 0.3 nm, except water, hydrogen and helium. The window's diameter slightly varies with temperature, however, that is endorsed in experimental results that hydrogen cannot be adsorbed at the liquid-nitrogen temperature. Authors measured the range of temperature where zeolite 3A permits hydrogen adsorption, and revealed the temperature difference of several degrees in appearance of molecular sieving for H-2 and D-2. This difference is important because from a H-2-D-2 mixture one isotope could be isolated by adsorption if operated at a temperature regulated between the molecular-sieving appearance temperatures. We have reported large values of D-2/H-2 separation factor obtained from molecular-sieving experiments. In this study, the effect of sieving for the hybrid-atomic isotope HD is examined using a H-2-HD-D-2 mixture. We here report the experimental HD/H-2 separation factor evaluated between the D-2/H-2 factor and unity. This result is significant because where the effective molecular diameter concerning the sieving mechanism is suggested. From this knowledge, the isotopic effect of sieving for HT and DT can be predicted. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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