KINETICS OF LEACHING PROCESS OF SELLA URANIUM ORE MATERIAL, SOUTH EASTERN DESERT, EGYPT | ||
| Nuclear Sciences Scientific Journal | ||
| Article 13, Volume 2, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 175-182 PDF (1.56 M) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/nssj.2013.30993 | ||
| Authors | ||
| YASSER M. KHAWASSEK; MOHAMED H. TAHA | ||
| Nuclear Materials Authority,Cairo, Egypt | ||
| Abstract | ||
| The leaching of uranium from Sella uranium ore using hydrochloric acid solution has been studied. The effect of different parameters such as leaching time, hydrochloric acid concentration, liquid/ solid mass ratio, reaction temperature, mechanical stirring speed are investigated in order to optimize various process parameters for maximizing the recovery of uranium. The maximum percentage uranium leaching of 96 % is achieved after 15 min of contact time leaching using 3.0 M hydrochloric acid and 4/ 1 liquid/ solid mass ratio at 26 °C with 400 rpm mechanical stirring speed. The experimental data are well interpreted with a shrinking core model with diffusion control through a porous product layer. By using the Arrhenius expression, the apparent activation energy for the uranium leaching reaction is evaluated. | ||
|
Statistics Article View: 256 PDF Download: 422 |
||
