Selective Removal of Zr(IV) from Simulated High-Level Liquid Waste of Metallic Fuel Reprocessing using Hydroxyacetamide Extractant: Insights from Solvent Extraction and Density Functional Theory Computations

Polyhedron ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 115410
Author(s):  
T. Prathibha ◽  
A.S. Suneesh ◽  
Swaroop Chandra ◽  
S. Sriram ◽  
N. Ramanathan
RSC Advances ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (30) ◽  
pp. 18246-18251
Author(s):  
Selçuk Eşsiz

A computational study of metal-free cyanomethylation and cyclization of aryl alkynoates with acetonitrile is carried out employing density functional theory and high-level coupled-cluster methods, such as [CCSD(T)].


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rongrong Li ◽  
Xinzheng Yang

Density functional theory computations revealed a pivalic acid assisted C−H bond activation mechanism for rhodium catalyzed formation of α-branched amines with C−C and C−N bond couplings. The reaction energies of...


1999 ◽  
Vol 23 (8) ◽  
pp. 502-503
Author(s):  
Branko S. Jursic

High level ab initio and density functional theory studies are performed on highly protonated methane species.


Author(s):  
R. Do Quang ◽  
V. Petitjean ◽  
F. Hollebecque ◽  
O. Pinet ◽  
T. Flament ◽  
...  

The performance of the vitrification process currently used in the La Hague commercial reprocessing plants has been continuously improved during more than ten years of operation. In parallel COGEMA (industrial Operator), the French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) and SGN (respectively COGEMA’s R&D provider and Engineering) have developed the cold crucible melter vitrification technology to obtain greater operating flexibility, increased plant availability and further reduction of secondary waste generated during operations. The cold crucible is a compact water-cooled melter in which the radioactive waste and the glass additives are melted by direct high frequency induction. The cooling of the melter produces a soldified glass layer that protects the melter’s inner wall from corrosion. Because the heat is transferred directly to the melt, high operating temperatures can be achieved with no impact on the melter itself. COGEMA plans to implement the cold crucible technology to vitrify high level liquid waste from reprocessed spent U-Mo-Sn-Al fuel (used in gas cooled reactor). The cold crucible was selected for the vitrification of this particularly hard-to-process waste stream because it could not be reasonably processed in the standard hot induction melters currently used at the La Hague vitrification facilities: the waste has a high molybdenum content which makes it very corrosive and also requires a special high temperature glass formulation to obtain sufficiently high waste loading factors (12% in molybednum). A special glass formulation has been developed by the CEA and has been qualified through lab and pilot testing to meet standard waste acceptance criteria for final disposal of the U-Mo waste. The process and the associated technologies have been also being qualified on a full-scale prototype at the CEA pilot facility in Marcoule. Engineering study has been integrated in parallel in order to take into account that the Cold Crucible should be installed remotely in one of the R7 vitrification cell. This paper will present the results obtained in the framework of these qualification programs.


2007 ◽  
Vol 06 (03) ◽  
pp. 549-562
Author(s):  
ABRAHAM F. JALBOUT

The transition states for the H 2 NO decomposition and rearrangements mechanisms have been explored by the CBS-Q method or by density functional theory. Six transition states were located on the potential energy surface, which were explored with the Quadratic Complete Basis Set (CBS-Q) and Becke's one-parameter density functional hybrid methods. Interesting deviations between the CBS-Q results and the B1LYP density functional theory lead us to believe that further study into this system is necessary. In the efforts to further assess the stabilities of the transition states, bond order calculations were performed to measure the strength of the bonds in the transition state.


Crystals ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 40
Author(s):  
Pralok K. Samanta ◽  
Christian J. Burnham ◽  
Niall J. English

In this work, we consider low-enthalpy polymorphs of ice, predicted previously using a modified basin-hopping algorithm for crystal-structure prediction with the TIP4P empirical potential at three pressures (0, 4 and 8 kbar). We compare and (re)-rank the reported ice polymorphs in order of energetic stability, using high-level quantum-chemical calculations, primarily in the guise of sophisticated Density-Functional Theory (DFT) approaches. In the absence of applied pressure, ice Ih is predicted to be energetically more stable than ice Ic, and TIP4P-predicted results and ranking compare well with the results obtained from DFT calculations. However, perhaps not unexpectedly, the deviation between TIP4P- and DFT-calculated results increases with applied external pressure.


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