Technetium-99masatracerfortheliquidRTDmeasurementinopaqueanaerobicdigester外文翻译.pdfVIP

Chemical Engineering and Processing 42 (2003) 857/ 865 /locate/cep Technetium-99m as a tracer for the liquid RTD measurement in opaque anaerobic digester: application in a sugar wastewater treatment plant a, a b c c J.I. Borroto *, J. Domı´nguez , J. Griffith , M. Fick , J.P. Leclerc a Instituto Superior de Ciencias y Tecnologı´a Nucleares, Ave. Salvador Allende y Luaces, Plaza, La Habana 10400, Cuba b Instituto Cubano de Investigaciones Azucareras, Carretera ISPJAE Km 2.5, Boyeros, La Habana, Cuba c PROGEPI, Laboratoire des Sciences du Ge´nie Chimique de Nancy, CNRS-ENSIC, 1 rue Grandville, B.P. 451, 54001 Nancy Cedex, France Received 3 April 2002; received in revised form 22 August 2002; accepted 4 September 2002 Abstract The aim of this paper is to study the possibility to use the pertechnetate ion (99mTcO ) as a radiotracer for the measurement of the 4 residence time distribution (RTD) of the liquid phase in opaque anaerobic digesters. An anaerobic digester in a sugar wastewater treatment plant was selected to carry out this study. Laboratory tests showed that the measured redox potential of the medium was not enough for the chemical reduction of the species TcO to TcO(OH) . However, sorption rate between 0.045 and 0.083% h 1 4 2 were observed, probably associated to the retention o