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CK/.Efv/ -Doc. COMITATO NAZIONALE ENERGIA NUCLEARE .CK/.Efv/ -Doc. COMITATO NAZIONALE ENERGIA NUCLEARE HEAVY WATER PRODUCTION INDUSTRIAL PROCESSES AND PLANTS (A Bibliography) D. Lavrencic comp, Doc. DAISE(70)8 COMITATO NAZIONALE ENERGIA NUCLEARE HEAVY WATER PRODUCTION INDUSTRIAL PROCESSES AND PLANTS (A Bibliography) D. Lavrencic comp. Divisione Affari Internazionali e Studi Economici Servizio Studi Economici Roma, settembre 1970. Index Introduction I. - General II. - Determination and Analyses of Heavy Water III. - Production Processes and Fabrication Plants A. - Processes Description 1. Production Processes 2. Treatment of Degraded Heavy Water B. - Actual Industrial Processes 1. Chemical Exchange 1.1. Bithermal Exchange Between Hydrogen • Sulphide and Water (H2S - HDO) 1.2. Ammonia-Hydrogen Chemical Exchange (NH3-HD) 1. 3. Hydrogen-Water Exchange 2. Distillation 2. 1. Distillation of Hydrogen 2.2. Distillation of Water 3. Electrolysis of Water 4. Potential Processes 4. 1. Chemical Exchange 4.2. Distillation 4.3. Others C. - Production Plants, Projects, Equipment D. - Patents E. - Economics IV. - Heavy Water Reactors V. -Heavy Water Reactors in Nuclear Power Programmes APPENDIX- Deuterium Oxide - Physics and Chemistry Author Index 1 INTRODUCTION This work aims at oulining a status of the heavy water produc­ tion processes and fabrication plants. The main sources of information are the Nuclear Science Abstracts from 1946 to June 1970; the Chem­ ical Abstracts as well as the available bibliographies and status reports from USA, USSR, France, Canada, India, Germany F.R., Italy are also been examined. The bibliography does not include references to survey of bio­ logical effects of deuterium and heavy water. The materials is arranged under the following main items: I. - General: general information, R&D programs, conference, bibliographies etc. II. -Determination and Analyses: various methods for the isotopie analysis of hydrogen, for heavy water production, and for the con­ trol of heavy water in nuclear reactors. III. - Production Processes and Fabrication Plants: A. - Processes Description: 1. Production processes: review of various production methods; 2. Treatment of degraded DQO: decontamination and purifica­ tion processes. B. - Actual Industrial Processes: 1. Chemical exchange: bithermal exchange between hydrogen sulphide and water; ammonia-hydrogen chemical exchange; hydrogen-water exchange; ii 2. Distillation of hydrogen and water; 3. Electrolysis of water; 4. Potential processes: chemical exchange between other sub­ stances than those above mentioned; distillation of ammo­ nia and methane; others (diffusion, adsorption, ion ex­ change, gas-chromatography etc. ); C. - Production Plants, Projects, Equipment: Conceptual studies, conceptual designs, descriptions opera­ tion and equipments of fabrication plants and projects. A sheet of plants and projects ordered by country is also included; D. - Patents: Patents are ordered chronologically by country (in alphabet­ ical order); E. - Economics: Economical aspects and costs of industrial production of consumption and demand of heavy water. IV. - Heavy Water Reactors: a table of research test and power heavy- water-moderated reactors ordered by> country is included.. For the bibliography on this heading, reference is made to'IAEA Heavy Water Reactors Bibliography edited in Jan. 1970 (STI/PUB/21/37). V. -Heavy Water Reactors in Nuclear Power Programs: nuclear strategy studies with heavy water reactors performed in different countries; forecasting of nuclear power based on HWR; heavy water and nuclear fuel requirements for HWR. In Appendix the references on heavy water physics and chemistry are reported. Under each subject heading references are listed from the first to the most recent one. Cross references are listed by the bibliogra­ phy number at the top of each heading. iii Author Index: is also included. Works are written in English language, ^ " \ unless otherwise marked. Aknowledgments The compilator wishes to aknowledge Prof. B.Brigoli of CISE for his helpful discussion, the Servizio Informazioni of Casaccia Center and Miss M. T. Petruzzi in preparing the list of references and the Authors Index. / 1 I. - GENERAL 1. A HYDROGEN ISOTOPE OF MASS 2. Urey H. C. , Brickwedde F. G. Murphy M.Phys.Rev. 39, 164-5, 1932. 2. ORTOHYDROGEN, PARAHYDROGEN, AND HEAVY HYDROGEN. Farkas A-. Cambridge University Press, London 1935. 3. FIAT REVIEW' OF GERMAN SCIENCE. PHYSIC AL CHEMISTRY. 1936-1949. Clusius K. et al. 4. FIAT REVIEW OF GERMAN SCIENCE. Harteck P. 14, 183, 1939- 1946. 5. FIAT REVIEW IF GERMAN SCIENCE. Suess H. F. 30, 19, 1939- 1946. 6. METALLURGICAL PROJECT REPORT. Fermi E., Zinn W.H., Wattenberg A. CP-182 7. June 1944. 7. THE SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING OF NUCLEAR POWER, Goodman C.ed Addison Wesley, Cambridge Mass. 1947-48. 8. ATOMIC ENERGY FOR MILITARY PURPOSES. Smythe H.D. Princeton University Press, Princeton N.J. 1948. 2 COMPILATION OF THERMAL PROPERTIES OF HYDROGEN IN ITS VARIOUS ISOTOPE AND ORTO-PARA MODIFICATIONS. Wooley H.W., Scott R. B., Brickwedde F.G. J. Res. Natl. Bur. Stds.41, 379-475,1948. 10. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF RESEARCH ON HEAVY HYDROGEN COM­ POUNDS. Kimball A. H., Urey H. C., Kirshenbaum I. Eds. New York, McGraw-Hill, 1949. (NNES-III-4C) IX.. HEAVY WATER. Barr F.T. AECD-2871, Nov. 23, 1949.Deci. Jan. ' 20, 1950. 12. DEUTERIUM AND HEAVY WATER — PHYSIOLOGICAL AND BIO­ LOGICAL ACTION. Bibliography of Published Literature. (AERE, Harwell Berks, UK). AERE-Inf/Bib-60. Feb. 1950. 13. UTILIZATION OF HEAVY WATER. Kirshenbaum I., Murphy G. M., Urey H. C. (Columbia Univ., New York. Substitute Alloy Materials Labs. USA). TID-5226. 1951. Deci. Feb. 27, 1957. (NNES-III-4B). 14. A COMPILATION OF VAPOR PRESSURE DATA OF DEUTERIUM COMPOUNDS. Armstrong G.T.NBS Report 23Q6.1953. 15. CHEMICAL ENGINEERING ASPECTS OF NUCLEAR POWER. Benedict M. Industr. and Engng. Chem. 45, No. 11, 2372, 1953. 16. DISSOLVING VELOCITY OF METALS IN DEUTERIO-ELECTRO- • LYTES.Brun.J.Tekn;UkebladlOO, No.4, 59, 1953,. 17. THE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF DEUTERIUM COMPOUNDS. Morowitz H. J., Brown L. M. (NBS, USA). Jan. 14, 1953. (NBS-2179) 3 18. A REVIEW OF THE PROPERTIES OF DEUTERIUM COMPOUNDS. ANNUAL BIBLIOGRAPHY, 1951. Brown L. M., Friedman A. S. (NBS, USA).NBS-2529. Aug. 1, 1953. 19. BIBLIOGRAPHY ON DEUTERIUM SEPARATION METHODS. Drews W.P. 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