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ARH-2343
UC-4, Chemistry
(TID 4500, 59th Ed.)
By
J. Vincent Panesko
June 1972
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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SUMMARY . . . 1
EXPERIMENTJi.L .. .. . " II
2
EQUIPMENT . . . . . . .. " II
2
REAGENTS . .. ... 2
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 7
REFERENCES . . . .. .. . . 7
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ABSTRACT
INTRODUCTION
SUMMARY
EXPERIMENTAL
?JlYIPMENT
An HF lecture bottle was warmed in a 50 C wat~L bath
to 'vaporize Ii quid Hf ~ Scrubber so lutions were pumped at
30 litere/hcur through a laboratory water aspirator jet
which drew HF from the lecture bottle. The jet emptidd
intro a I-liter graduated cylinder from Hhich scrubber solu-
tion was recycled through the pump Clnd jet (see Figure 1).
A slight vacuum was placed on the graduat.:d cylin.der to
draw unrcacted HF through a secondary scrubber containing
caustic.
An AlF3 precipitation study was performed by mixing
different ratios of F and Al in 250-cc glass bottles. Mlen
solids were obtained, they ..,ere filtered through a What.il~n
42 filter, dried, and weighed.
REAGEN':'S
~Vacuum
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r--\ \-- \
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-THF
'1 I scrubber
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. cylinder
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/\llirl t".----' water
scr.ubhe. ~ L~ 'Bath
50 "c
HF SOURcE
PRIMARY SCRUBBER
SECONDARY SCRUBBER
FIGURE
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HYDROfLUORIC ACID SCRUBBER SYSTEM
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RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
TABLE ~
ABSORPTION OF GASEOUS P.F
HF HF in
S,::rubbcr 1 ~~ !'iaOH
Initial Final; Added~' I~.E.e.g_~
',() 1u.me
~ ~ol.es moles '- moles
~~ ~; -1i.t.erL ~~
I.osorptl.on with KOH
0.88 0
1 '
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.~ 1 5,45 (OH) 4,';(' lOll:
j ,) 0,(; 3
4.56 0.88 3.63
2 10 1 0
20 0.87 0.75 0::- 1. 2
3 ~.5 6:: 'j
O.S :!.75 (L,Q9
4 20 lS ,)
0.4 0.09 ')..:. O. S 3
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!l.l>50rption "'i til IiON,)8Al.
(Al; 1. 7') 4':.' ()
1 }.J 0.5 1. 69
Deternll.ned by titrat1ol'l.
Determined by HF cylinder weight loss.
_ pH" 6 .
.1 pH = 7.
The first three runs used the same one liter of KOH at
three different HF addition rates (0.033, 0.36, and 0.06
moles HF per liter per min, respectively). Run 2 re-
sulted ~n excessive turbulence and a SO C te~perature
within 10 minutes. The heat of re~ct10n for liF and KOH was
calculated to be -26.9 Kcal/mole. ['1, 1;] \\1hi te HF fumes es-
c~ped from the primary KOH scrubber and were analyzed in the
8econdary NaOH scrubber. Runs 4 and 5 used 0.5 liter of
fresh S.4SM KOH with HF addition rates of 0.25 and 0.15
moles per liter per min, respectively. The temperature of
the KOH in Run 4 reached 60 C in 20 min; r.he tempe=ature
in Run 5 reached 35C in 15 min.
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Complete absorption of
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Three runs with one liter of 50% ANN (1.75M AI) yielded
increasing f:Al molar ratios of 1, 2.3, and 3.6. In the
first run complete HF absorption occurred with a final
temperature of 36 C. When the F:Al molar ratlO reached
2.3, fin~ly suspended solids were observed with no apparent
loss in HF absorption. By the time the F:Al molar ratio
reached 3.6, HF absorption was incomplete and a large amount
of white, finely suspended solids slowed down r(;G.1.rc'llation
rates. Upon settling out, the solids formed a 20 vol% jelly-
like mass which after two days required forceful stirring to
break up.
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TABLE II
SOLIDS FORMATION AT DIFFERENT FLUORIDE-TO-ALUMINUM kAT lOS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
REFERENCES
DISTRIBUTION
O. J. Elgert
195 ~9rnic Energy Commission Technical
Infor!l1ation Cepter, Oak "Ridge, Tennessee