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The metal is a source of nuclear power. There is probably more energy available for use from thorium in the minerals of the earth s crust than from both uranium and fossil fuels. Any sizable demand from thorium as a nuclear fuel is still several years in the future. Work has been done in developing thorium cycle converter-reactor systems. Several prototypes, including the HTGR (high-temperature gas-cooled reactor) and MSRE (molten salt converter reactor experiment), have operated. While the HTGR reactors are efficient, they are not expected to become important commercially for many years because of certain operating difficulties. 

Fig. 6. Cyclone furnace in effect a high, temperature, slag removal combustion chamber auxiliary to the gas-cooling boiler furnace.

Coal can be processed to H2 by heat from a high temperature, gas-cooled reactor at a process efficiency of 60—70%. Process steps are coal hquefaction, hydrogasification of the Hquid, and steam reforming of gaseous products (179). 

At the high temperatures found in MHD combustors, nitrogen oxides, NO, are formed primarily by gas-phase reactions, rather than from fuel-bound nitrogen. The principal constituent is nitric oxide [10102-43-9] NO, and the amount formed is generally limited by kinetics. Equilibrium values are reached only at very high temperatures. NO decomposes as the gas cools, at a rate which decreases with temperature. If the combustion gas cools too rapidly after the MHD channel the NO has insufficient time to decompose and excessive amounts can be released to the atmosphere. Below about 1800 K there is essentially no thermal decomposition of NO. 

Third, design constraints are imposed by the requirement for controlled cooling rates for NO reduction. The 1.5—2 s residence time required increases furnace volume and surface area. The physical processes involved in NO control, including the kinetics of NO chemistry, radiative heat transfer and gas cooling rates, fluid dynamics and boundary layer effects in the boiler, and final combustion of fuel-rich MHD generator exhaust gases, must be considered. 

Fig. 2. Fuel for high temperature gas-cooled reactor. Fissile material is coated with carbon and siHcon carbide, fertile material with carbon. Particles mixed...

D. R. Poulter, ed.. The Design of Gas-Cooled Graphite-Moderated Reactors, Oxford University Press, London, 1963. 

At the lowest reaction temperatures, tetrahedra rather than P2 dimers may be produced, or as the gas cools, dimers combine as ... 

In general, plants using SO2 gas derived from metallic sulfides, spent acids, or gypsum anhydrite purify the gas stream before drying it by cold, ie, wet, gas purification. Various equipment combinations including humidification towers, reverse jet scmbbers, packed gas cooling towers, impingement tray columns and electrostatic precipitators are used to clean the gas. 

Fig. 21. Single absorption equilibrium-stage diagram where the equiUbrium curve is for 8% SO2, 12.9% the diagonal lines represent the adiabatic temperature rise of the process gas within each converter pass the horizontal lines represent gas cooling between passes, where no appreciable conversion...

As previously stated, uranium carbides are used as nuclear fuel (145). Two of the typical reactors fueled by uranium and mixed metal carbides are thermionic, which are continually being developed for space power and propulsion systems, and high temperature gas-cooled reactors (83,146,147). In order to be used as nuclear fuel, carbide microspheres are required. These microspheres have been fabricated by a carbothermic reduction of UO and elemental carbon to form UC (148,149). In addition to these uses, the carbides are also precursors for uranium nitride based fuels. 

Carbides of the Actinides, Uranium, and Thorium. The carbides of uranium and thorium are used as nuclear fuels and breeder materials for gas-cooled, graphite-moderated reactors (see Nuclearreactors). The actinide carbides are prepared by the reaction of metal or metal hydride powders with carbon or preferably by the reduction of the oxides uranium dioxide [1344-57-6] UO2 tduranium octaoxide [1344-59-8], U Og, or thorium... 

In conventional treating systems using cold-gas cleanup, the small fraction of metals released to the gas phase is captured effectively in the gas cooling and gas treating steps. The combination of gas cooling and multistage gas—Hquid contacting reduces very substantially the potential for airborne emissions of volatile metals such as lead, beryUium, mercury, or arsenic. 

Temperature and Humidity of Rich Gas Cooling and consequent dehumidification of the feed gas to an absorption tower can be very beneficial. A high humidity (or relative saturation with solvent) limits the capacity of the gas phase to take up latent heat and therefore is unfavorable to absorption. Thus, dehumidification of the inlet gas prior to introducing it into the tower is worth considering in the design of gas absorbers with large heat effects. 

Cooling of a gas containing a condensable vapor. Here the problem is that the gas cools faster than condensable vapor can be removed by mass transfer. 

Melting Smoke and particulates, fume afterburner, gas-cooling device and... 

Lithium chloride [7447-41-8] M 42.4, m 600 , 723 . Crysld from water (ImL/g) or MeOH and dried for several hours at 130 . Other metal ions can be removed by preliminary crystallisation from hot aqueous 0.0 IM disodium EDTA. Has also been crystallised from cone HCl, fused in an atmosphere of dry HCl gas, cooled under dry N2 and pulverised in a dry-box. Kolthoff and Bruckenstein [J Am Chem Soc 74 2529 1952] ppted with ammonium carbonate, washed with Li2C03 five times by decantation and finally with suction, then dissolved in HCl. The LiCl solution was evaporated slowly with continuous stirring in a large evaporating dish, the dry powder being stored (while still hot) in a desiccator over CaCl2. 

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