Edward Michaels

US Patent:

43436854, Aug 10, 1982

Filed:

Feb 25, 1981

Appl. No.:

6/238711

Inventors:

Edward D. Michaels - Spring Valley OH

Assignee:

The United States of America as represented by the United States
Department of Energy - Washington DC

International Classification:

B01D 5932
C25B 102
C25B 122

US Classification:

204101

Abstract:

A process to prepare a chemical enriched in isotope content which includes: (a) A chemical exchange reaction between a first and second compound which yields an isotopically enriched first compound and an isotopically depleted second compound; (b) the removal of a portion of the first compound as product and the removal of a portion of the second compound as spent material; (c) the conversion of the remainder of the first compound to the second compound for reflux at the product end of the chemical exchange reaction region; (d) the conversion of the remainder of the second compound to the first compound for reflux at the spent material end of the chemical exchange region; and the cycling of the additional chemicals produced by one conversion reaction to the other conversion reaction, for consumption therein. One of the conversion reactions is an oxidation reaction, and the energy that it yields is used to drive the other conversion reaction, a reduction. The reduction reaction is carried out in a solid polymer electrolyte electrolytic reactor.