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The PUREX process was invented by Herbert H. Anderson and Larned B. Asprey at the Metallurgical Laboratory at the University of Chicago, as part of the Manhattan Project under Glenn T. Seaborg; their patent "Solvent Extraction Process for Plutonium" filed in 1947, [14] mentions tributyl phosphate as the major reactant which accomplishes the ...
Purex is one of the most widely used laundry detergents in North America. Its original product, Purex Bleach, was a major competitor to Clorox bleach. The brand name is also used for a line of in-wash "fragrance booster" products called Purex Crystals. The Purex Crystals brand was originally launched as an in-wash fabric softener product.
It is also used in nuclear reprocessing as part of the PUREX process. A 15–40% (usually about 30%) solution of tributyl phosphate in kerosene or dodecane is used in the liquid–liquid extraction (solvent extraction) of uranium, plutonium, and thorium from spent uranium nuclear fuel rods dissolved in nitric acid. Liquid extraction can also be ...
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REDOX, PUREX: Shut down 1944 1988 Military Savannah River Site: South Carolina: LWR PUREX: Shut down 5000 1952 2002 Civil West Valley LWR PUREX: Shut down 300 1966 1972 Civil Barnwell LWR Finished; never entered service 1500 INL LWR Shut down Morris Operation: Morris, Illinois: Construction halted; never entered service, completion proposed ...
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Process engineering encompasses a vast range of industries, such as agriculture, automotive, biotechnical, chemical, food, material development, mining, nuclear, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, and software development. The application of systematic computer-based methods to process engineering is "process systems engineering".
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