Novel poly(imide dioxime) sorbents: Development and testing for enhanced extraction of uranium from natural seawater

S. Das; S. Brown; R. T. Mayes; C. J. Janke; C. Tsouris; L. J. Kuo; G. Gill; S. Dai

doi:10.1016/j.cej.2016.04.013

Novel poly(imide dioxime) sorbents: Development and testing for enhanced extraction of uranium from natural seawater

S. Das, S. Brown, R. T. Mayes, C. J. Janke, C. Tsouris, L. J. Kuo, G. Gill, S. Dai

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Abstract

A new series of amidoxime-based polymer adsorbents were synthesized at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) by electron beam induced grafting of acrylonitrile and itaconic acid onto polyethylene fiber. Hydroxylamine derivatives of poly(acrylonitrile) (PAN) moiety are demonstrated to possess two kinds of functional groups: open-chain amidoxime and cyclic imide dioxime. The open-chain amidoxime is shown to convert to imide dioxime on heat treatment in the presence of an aprotic solvent, like dimethylsulfoxide (DMSO). The formation of amidoxime and imide dioxime was confirmed by ¹³C CP-MAS spectra. The adsorbents were evaluated for uranium adsorption efficiency at ORNL with simulated seawater spiked with 8 ppm uranium and 5 gallon seawater in a batch reactor, and in flow-through columns with natural seawater at the Marine Science Laboratory (MSL) of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) at Sequim Bay, WA. The DMSO-heat-treated sorbents adsorbed uranium as high as 4.48 g-U/kg-ads. from seawater. Experimental evidence is presented that the poly(imide dioxime) is primarily responsible for enhanced uranium adsorption capacity from natural seawater. The conjugated system in the imide dioxime ligand possesses increased electron donation ability, which is believed to significantly enhance the uranyl coordination in seawater.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	125-135
Number of pages	11
Journal	Chemical Engineering Journal
Volume	298
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2016.04.013
State	Published - Aug 15 2016

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This work was sponsored by the US Department of Energy, Office of Nuclear Energy . This manuscript has been authored by UT-Battelle, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC05-00OR22725 with the US Department of Energy. The United States Government retains and the publisher, by accepting the article for publication, acknowledges that the United States Government retains a non-exclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, world-wide license to publish or reproduce the published form of this manuscript, or allow others to do so, for United States Government purposes. The Department of Energy will provide public access to these results of federally sponsored research in accordance with the DOE Public Access Plan ( http://energy.gov/downloads/doe-public-access-plan ).

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Office of Nuclear Energy	DE-AC05-00OR22725

Keywords

Amidoxime
Grafting
Imide dioxime
Polymer
Seawater
Uranium adsorption

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