Abstract
Abstract Supported liquid membranes (SLM), consisting of an organic solution of n-octyl(phenyl)-N, N-diisobutylcar-bamoylmethylphosphine oxide (CMPO) and tributyl-phos-phate (TBP) in decalin are able to perform selective separation and concentration of actinide and lantha-nide ions from aqueous nitrate feed solutions and synthetic nuclear wastes. In the membrane process a possible strip solution is a mixture of formic acid and hydroxylammonium formate (HAF). The effectiveness of this strip solution is reduced and eventually nullified by the simultaneous transfer through the SLM of HNOs which accumulates in the strip solution. A possible way to overcome this drawback is to make use of a second SLM consisting of a primary amine which is able to extract only HNO3 from the strip solution. In this work the results obtained by experimentally studying the membrane system: synthetic nuclear waste/CMPO-TBP membrane/HCOOH-HAF strip solution/ primary amine membrane/NaOH solution, are reported. They show that the use...
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