Separation of water-isotopes mixture in continuous-flow thermal diffusion columns for recovery of deuterium

摘要

The present study deals with the estimation of deuterium recovery from the separation of water-isotopes mixture (H_2O-HDO-D_2O) by continuous-flow thermal diffusion. First, the equations for predicting the degrees of separation for each component in H_2O-HDO-D_2O system were derived by following the same procedure performed in the previous work. The recovery of deuterium (D) was then estimated from the degrees of separation of HDO and D_2O and confirmed with the experimental results.