CALCULATION OF A CASCADE OF ONE OR SEVERAL TYPES OF STAGES BY THE NUMBER OF GAS CENTRIFUGES FOR MULTICOMPONENT SEPARATION

A method has been proposed for calculating a cascade with one or several types of stages according to the number of gas centrifuges, variable separation factors of the stages, and prescribed concentrations of the target isotope in outgoing flows. The method ensures determining the effective parameters of the cascade of gas centrifuges in a prescribed configuration based on the calculated feed flows of the stages, that vary in individual portions of the cascade. A computational experiment has been conducted on separation of germanium tetrafluoride. With the example of concentrating 70 Ge, the characteristic features of cascades have been shown

Author:  V. A. Palkin
Keywords:  separation of isotopes, cascade, gas centrifuge, germanium isotopes
Page:  869