Patents Assigned to Ivo Power Engineering Oy
  • Patent number: 6214234
    Abstract: A method for removal of cesium from aqueous solution, particularly from nuclear waste liquids. The cesium-containing aqueous solution is contacted with a solid-state hexacyanoferrate compound of a transition element for binding cesium to the hexacyanoferrate. The aqueous solution of reduced cesium content is separated from the hexacyanoferrate. Preferably, a nickel or cobalt hexacyanoferrate is utilized having a fraction of exchangeable transition elements smaller than 35 %. The hexacyanoferrate compound of said transition element may be produced by slowly adding an aqueous solution of the hexacyanoferrate into the transition element salt solution, the concentration of the transition element salt solution being at least 0.35 mol/l, stirring the mixture at ambient temperature during the addition, and separating and recovering the resulting hexacyanoferrate precipitate from the mixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2001
    Assignee: Ivo Power Engineering Oy
    Inventors: Risto Harjula, Jukka Lehto