Abstract: A method operable to remove contaminants from a contaminated fluid stream is provided. The process includes receiving the fluid stream containing contaminants. A first portion of the contaminants are removed from the fluid stream with a first scrubbing vessel. A first alkaline solution reacts with the contaminants such that the contaminants enter a contaminant solution. A remaining portion of the contaminants from the fluid stream is then removed with a at least one additional scrubbing vessel, wherein a second alkaline solution reacts with the contaminants such that part of the remaining portion of the contaminants enter a second solution. Water content is then removed from the fluid stream with a desiccating module, wherein the desiccating module outputs a clean fluid stream.

Abstract: A method operable to remove contaminants from a contaminated fluid stream is provided. The process includes receiving the fluid stream containing contaminants. A first portion of the contaminants are removed from the fluid stream with a first scrubbing vessel. A first base solution reacts with the contaminants such that the contaminants enter a contaminant solution. A remaining portion of the contaminants from the fluid stream is then removed with a at least one additional scrubbing vessel, wherein a second base solution reacts with the contaminants such that part of the remaining portion of the contaminants enter a second solution. Water content is then removed from the fluid stream with a desiccating module, wherein the desiccating module outputs a clean fluid stream.

Abstract: An impurity gettering device can be installed between a source and a reactor to reduce an impurity from a fluid before it reaches the reactor. More particularly, the impurity gettering device can getter an inorganic, polar, hydrogen-containing impurity (e.g., H2O, NH3, etc.) from a halogen-containing fluid (e.g., a fluorine-containing liquid or gas) by forming ligands to a metal-containing compound to form a complex. In one example, a fluid source may include HF and H2O, which can flow through the impurity getting device that includes COF2. The COF2 can getter the H2O and form CoF2.ZH2O, where Z is an integer. The fluid may become anhydrous HF that can be processed by a reactor, such as an electrolytic cell. By removing H2O before the fluid reaches the electrolytic cell, adverse effects of H2O, such as consumption of a carbon anode, particle generation, etc. can be reduced.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for recovering products from the defluorination of uranium hexafluoride. Recovered are a commercial grade anhydrous hydrogen fluoride and triuranium oxide through the use of two distinct reactors.