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Successive uranium and thorium adsorption from Egyptian monazite by solvent impregnated foam

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The present work deals with uranium and thorium recovery from the Egyptian monazite sulfate leach liquor using the extraction chromatography technique (solvent impregnated material), where tributylamine (TBA) and di-n-octylamine (DOA) solvents were impregnated onto foam uranium and thorium separate recovery. The calculated theoretical capacities of the latter solvents were about 1.4 gU/g foam and 1.6 gTh/g foam, respectively. The attained uranium and thorium adsorption efficiencies (using ion-exchange columnar technique) were about 75 and 70% of its theoretical capacities, respectively. Using 1 M NaCl–0.1 M H2SO4 and 2 M H2SO4 as eluent solutions for uranium and thorium from the loaded solvents impregnated foam gave 95.8 and 98.7% elution efficiencies, respectively.

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Hussein, A.E.M. Successive uranium and thorium adsorption from Egyptian monazite by solvent impregnated foam. J Radioanal Nucl Chem 289, 321–329 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-011-1107-x

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