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TY - JOUR
T1 - Kinetics and reactive stripping modelling of hydrogen isotopic exchange of deuterated waters
AU - Aldehani, Mohammed
AU - Alzahrani, Faris
AU - tSaoir, Meabh Nic An
AU - Abreu Fernandes, Daniel Luis
AU - Assabumrungrat, Suttichai
AU - Aiouache, Farid
N1 - This is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Chemical Engineering and Processing. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Chemical Engineering and Processing, 108, 2016 DOI: 10.1016/j.cep.2016.07.008
PY - 2016/10
Y1 - 2016/10
N2 - This work presents results of experimental kinetics and modelling of the isotopicexchange between hydrogen and water in a reactive stripping column for water dedeuteriation. The missing physical properties of deuterium and tritium isotopologues in hydrogen gas and water forms were predicted and validated using existing literature data. The kinetic model relevant to a styrene-divinyl-benzene co-polymer–supported platinum catalyst was used for modelling, by Aspen plus modular package, impact of design parameters including temperature, total pressure, gas to liquid flowrate ratio, pressure drop and flow mixing, on the separation of deuterium and further the separation of tritium. The modelling by the rate-based non-equilibrium, including design correlations of model of mass and heat transfers, chemical kinetic constants, mass transfercoefficients and overall exchange rate constants, allowed access to separation trends in a good agreement with published data. The synergy between the rates of chemical isotopic exchange and gas/liquid mass transfer, and by inference the performance of reactive stripping, was particularly sensitive to high temperatures, low hydrogen flow rates, pressure drops and internals properties.Extension to tritium confirmed a slightly slower mass transport compared with deuterium leading to potentially under-estimated design features for detritiation processing when deuterium is used instead.
AB - This work presents results of experimental kinetics and modelling of the isotopicexchange between hydrogen and water in a reactive stripping column for water dedeuteriation. The missing physical properties of deuterium and tritium isotopologues in hydrogen gas and water forms were predicted and validated using existing literature data. The kinetic model relevant to a styrene-divinyl-benzene co-polymer–supported platinum catalyst was used for modelling, by Aspen plus modular package, impact of design parameters including temperature, total pressure, gas to liquid flowrate ratio, pressure drop and flow mixing, on the separation of deuterium and further the separation of tritium. The modelling by the rate-based non-equilibrium, including design correlations of model of mass and heat transfers, chemical kinetic constants, mass transfercoefficients and overall exchange rate constants, allowed access to separation trends in a good agreement with published data. The synergy between the rates of chemical isotopic exchange and gas/liquid mass transfer, and by inference the performance of reactive stripping, was particularly sensitive to high temperatures, low hydrogen flow rates, pressure drops and internals properties.Extension to tritium confirmed a slightly slower mass transport compared with deuterium leading to potentially under-estimated design features for detritiation processing when deuterium is used instead.
KW - Isotopic exchange
KW - Reactive stripping
KW - Detritiation
KW - Dedeuteriation
KW - Rate-based modelling
KW - Reactive separation
U2 - 10.1016/j.cep.2016.07.008
DO - 10.1016/j.cep.2016.07.008
M3 - Journal article
VL - 108
SP - 58
EP - 73
JO - Chemical Engineering and Processing: Process Intensification
JF - Chemical Engineering and Processing: Process Intensification
SN - 0255-2701
ER -