Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Process and device for separating isotopes from a gas flow
- Patent Title (中): 用于从气流中分离同位素的方法和装置
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Application No.: US14123499Application Date: 2012-05-31
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Publication No.: US09421497B2Publication Date: 2016-08-23
- Inventor: Bertrand Rowe , Robert Georges , André Canosa , Sébastien Morales
- Applicant: Bertrand Rowe , Robert Georges , André Canosa , Sébastien Morales
- Applicant Address: FR Rennes FR Paris
- Assignee: Universite De Rennes 1,Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique
- Current Assignee: Universite De Rennes 1,Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique
- Current Assignee Address: FR Rennes FR Paris
- Agency: Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani LLP
- Priority: FR1154820 20110601
- International Application: PCT/FR2012/051222 WO 20120531
- International Announcement: WO2012/164230 WO 20121206
- Main IPC: B03C1/00
- IPC: B03C1/00 ; B01D59/00 ; B01D59/50 ; B01D50/00 ; B01D45/04 ; B01D46/00 ; B01D45/12 ; B01D59/34 ; B01J19/12 ; B03C1/30 ; B01D59/18

Abstract:
A method for the isotopic separation of at least two different isotopes of a body in gaseous form by: (a) converting into the form of a gas (SF6, UF6 or MoF6) the body of interest containing the sought isotope; (b) creating a flow of said gas at supersonic speed, of the laminar or slightly turbulent type; (c) exciting the molecules by laser; (d) inhibiting, by means of a laser, the nucleation of one of the isotopologs, thus forming less massive aggregates of said isotopolog than the aggregates formed by the molecules of the other isotopolog; (e) ionizing the molecules and aggregates of said gas; (f) submitting the ionized molecules and aggregates of molecules to an electromagnetic field to make the ionized molecules and aggregates of one of the isotopologs migrate towards the outside of the flow; and (g) retrieving the part of the gas flow with the highest concentration in the sought isotope.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140245885A1 Process and Device for Separating Isotopes from a Gas Flow Public/Granted day:2014-09-04
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