Development and Optimization of Voltammetry for Real Time Analysis of Multi-Component Electrorefiner Salt. (30th August 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Zhang, Chao; Rappleye, Devin; Simpson, Michael Forrest
• Is Part Of: ECS transactions. Volume 75:Number 15(2016)
• Page Start: 95
• Page End: 103
• Publication Date: 2016-08-30
• Subjects: Electrochemistry -- Periodicals; Electrochemistry; Periodicals; Electronic journals; Electronic journal; 541.37
• DOI: 10.1149/07515.0095ecst
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1938-5862

Abstract

Abstract : Normal pulse voltammetry was performed on LiCl-KCl-UCl3-MgCl2 molten salt mixtures while varying parameters such as pulse time, relaxation potential, and interval time. Concentrations of UCl3 up to 7 wt% were tested with a fixed 1.5 wt% MgCl2 concentration. The correlation between diffusion limited partial current density to UCl3 concentration exhibited an excellent fit to a 2 nd order polynomial. A similar fit was obtained for the correlation between MgCl2 concentration and the diffusion limited partial current density at a fixed UCl3 concentration of 1.0 wt%.