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Working Liquid Holdup by Irregular Fine Packing in Uranium Hexafluoride Rectification

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The rectification of uranium hexafluoride and its main technological impurities – tungsten and molybdenum hexafluorides – was studied. Irregular, fine, spiral, and spiral-prismatic packings were used as the separating elements. It is shown that the dependence of the working holdup of liquid metal-hexafluorides on the rectification parameters in a packing column with irregular fine packing is identical to the dependences given in the literature but with different coefficients and exponential factors.

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Translated from Atomnaya Énergiya, Vol. 126, No. 1, pp. 45–48, January, 2019.

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Ezhov, V.K. Working Liquid Holdup by Irregular Fine Packing in Uranium Hexafluoride Rectification. At Energy 126, 52–55 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10512-019-00513-5

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