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Investigation of Sr uptake by birnessite-type sorbents from seawater

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Sorption of micro- and microamounts of Sr from seawater has been studied using granulated Na-birnessite. Distribution coefficients of 90Sr in the natural seawater are 0.8–1.2 × 103 ml g−1, in the model seawater they are 1.6–1.8 × 103 ml g−1. Application of Na-birnessite was shown to be prospective in sorption–desorption–regeneration regime. In dynamic sorption conditions, over 150 bed volumes of seawater can be purified till 5% breakthrough occurs at feed rate 10 BV h−1. Na-birnessite can be used for 90Sr radionuclide removal from liquid radioactive wastes containing seawater.

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Equipment of CUC “Far Eastern Center of structural investigations” was used in the work. The work was carried out under the financial support of Russian Science Foundation (Project No. 14-13-00135).

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  1. Institute of Chemistry FEBRAS, 159 Pr-t 100-letiya Vladivostoka, Vladivostok, Russia, 690022

    Andrei Egorin, Tatiana Sokolnitskaya, Yuliya Azarova, Arseniy Portnyagin, Mikhail Balanov, Eduard Tokar, Ivan Tananaev & Valentin Avramenko

  2. Far Eastern Federal University, 8 Sukhanova St., Vladivostok, Russia, 690090

    Andrei Egorin, Tatiana Sokolnitskaya, Arseniy Portnyagin, Mikhail Balanov, Darya Misko, Evgeny Shelestyuk, Anastasia Kalashnikova, Eduard Tokar, Ivan Tananaev & Valentin Avramenko

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Egorin, A., Sokolnitskaya, T., Azarova, Y. et al. Investigation of Sr uptake by birnessite-type sorbents from seawater. J Radioanal Nucl Chem 317, 243–251 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-018-5905-2

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