潘建雄, 周明胜, 裴根, 姜东君, 洪锋. 以三氯化硼为介质离心分离硼同位素[J]. 同位素, 2018, 31(2): 77-83. DOI: 10.7538/tws.2017.youxian.051
引用本文: 潘建雄, 周明胜, 裴根, 姜东君, 洪锋. 以三氯化硼为介质离心分离硼同位素[J]. 同位素, 2018, 31(2): 77-83. DOI: 10.7538/tws.2017.youxian.051
PAN Jianxiong, ZHOU Mingsheng, PEI Gen, JIANG Dongjun, HONG Feng. Centrifugal Separation of Boron Isotopes Using Boron Trichloride as Processing Gas[J]. Journal of Isotopes, 2018, 31(2): 77-83. DOI: 10.7538/tws.2017.youxian.051
Citation: PAN Jianxiong, ZHOU Mingsheng, PEI Gen, JIANG Dongjun, HONG Feng. Centrifugal Separation of Boron Isotopes Using Boron Trichloride as Processing Gas[J]. Journal of Isotopes, 2018, 31(2): 77-83. DOI: 10.7538/tws.2017.youxian.051

以三氯化硼为介质离心分离硼同位素

Centrifugal Separation of Boron Isotopes Using Boron Trichloride as Processing Gas

  • 摘要: 为了实现硼同位素的分离制备,采用气体离心法,以三氯化硼为工作介质进行离心分离研究。通过单机分离实验,对三氯化硼样品进行质谱分析,得到不同供料流量、分流比条件下的基本全分离系数,并在此基础上进行富集硼-10的离心分离级联计算。结果表明,以三氯化硼为工作介质离心分离硼同位素可行;三氯化硼的基本全分离系数可达1.08;使用30级矩形级联或60级相对丰度匹配级联一次分离可以获得丰度大于60%的硼-10同位素产品,二次分离可以获得丰度大于90%的硼-10同位素产品。该研究的开展可为离心法生产高丰度硼同位素产品提供参考。

     

    Abstract: Stable isotopes had been widely used in the industrial production, health care, fundamental physics research, and so on. Natural boron has two stable isotopes: 10B (19.9%) and 11B(80.1%). The thermal neutron cross section of 10B isotope is 3835 barns, while that of 11B isotope is only 0.005 5 barns. With high cross section for thermal neutron, 10B isotope gains important applications in nuclear industry, radiation therapy and other fields. In the third-generation nuclear power plants, it’s required that the primary coolant should use enriched boric acid with 10B isotope in abundance of 30%-60%. Boron carbide with 10B isotope in abundance of 92% is used in fast neutron reactors as the control rod. 10B isotope can also be used for boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT) in cancer treatments. In order to obtain high-abundance 10B isotope, the study on gas centrifugal separation of boron isotopes was carried out based on domestic centrifuges, with boron trichloride as processing gas. Single-centrifuge experiments of different feed flows and cuts were done. Samples of each experiment were analyzed by the gas mass spectrometer to calculate separation performance. As a result, the overall separation factor of boron trichloride was about 1.08. Furthermore, the influence of feed flow and cut on overall separation factor was studied. Finally, based on the single-centrifuge experiments, parameters of centrifugal cascades for high-abundance 10B isotope production were carried out by numerical calculation. Cascade parameters of square cascade and matched abundance ratio cascade were worked out separately. 10B isotope production in abundance of 60% and 90% could be obtained by cascades with suitable parameters. The single-centrifuge experimental study and cascade calculation proved the feasibility of boron isotope separation by gas centrifugation method, with boron trichloride as processing gas. It laid a foundation for enriched boron isotopes production.

     

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