Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method and arrangement for producing fuel kernels
- Patent Title (中): 生产燃料核的方法和装置
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Application No.: US13130199Application Date: 2009-11-23
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Publication No.: US09047993B2Publication Date: 2015-06-02
- Inventor: Werner Heit , Martin Kadner , Georg Braehler , Karl Froschauer
- Applicant: Werner Heit , Martin Kadner , Georg Braehler , Karl Froschauer
- Applicant Address: DE Alzenau
- Assignee: NUKEN TECHNOLOGIES GMBH
- Current Assignee: NUKEN TECHNOLOGIES GMBH
- Current Assignee Address: DE Alzenau
- Agency: Ladas & Parry LLP
- Priority: DE102008055468 20081201
- International Application: PCT/EP2009/065666 WO 20091123
- International Announcement: WO2010/063603 WO 20100610
- Main IPC: B29C44/34
- IPC: B29C44/34 ; G21C3/62 ; G21C3/42 ; G21C3/58 ; G21C21/02

Abstract:
A method and an arrangement for producing spherical fuel cores and/or breeder material cores by dripping a pouring solution containing uranyl nitrate and a solution containing at least one auxiliary agent into an ammoniacal precipitation bath to form microspheres, aging, washing, drying, and thermally treating the microspheres. In order to provide a continuous production method along with a constantly high core quality, it is proposed that 1) the microspheres from the precipitation bath be separated through a first separator and fed to the ammoniacal aging water for aging, 2) the contact duration of the microspheres with the liquid of the precipitation bath before being introduced into the aging water be set equally or substantially equally, 3) the microspheres be transferred from the aging water to a multi-stage cascade scrubber using a transfer device, wherein the microspheres are washed in the multi-stage cascade scrubber so as to be free or substantially free from ammonium nitrate and at least one auxiliary agent contained in the microspheres, and 4) after drying, the microspheres be calcinated while distributed in a monolayer during a thermal treatment.
Public/Granted literature
- US20110285040A1 METHOD AND ARRANGEMENT FOR PRODUCING FUEL CORES Public/Granted day:2011-11-24
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