[2H01] Isotope enrichment

[2H01] Calcium and Lithium Isotope Separation by Liquid-Liquid Extraction (LLE) using DC18C6 Crown-Ether

*Anawat Rittirong¹, Pannipa Noithong¹, Takaaki Yoshimoto¹, Ryuta Hazama¹, Tadafumi Kishimoto², Toshiyuki Fujii², Yoichi Sakuma³, Satoshi Fukutani⁴, Yuji Shibahara⁴ (1. Osaka Sangyo Univ., 2. Osaka Univ., 3. Tokyo Tech, 4. Kyoto Univ.)

Keywords:Isotope Separation, Calcium, Lithium, Liquid-Liquid Extraction

Calcium partition coefficient (K_pc) was 0.1707±0.0010 when using 12M HCl solvent and 0.0172±0.0001 for water solvent. For lithium, The K_pc found to be 0.0258±0.0002 and 0.0089±0.0001 while the separation factor (α) was 1.011±0.003 and 1.009±0.002 for the pure water and HCl solvent. The results showed dependency on acidity solvent, which can improve the mass production of enrichment.