Advances in Hydrogen Isotope Separation Using Thermal Cycling Absorption Process (TCAP) X. Steve Xiao Contributions: L.K. Heung, H.T. Sessions, S. Redd H 2 D 2 T 2 H 2 , D 2 , T 2 H 2 D 2 T 2 H 2 D 2 T 2 H 2 D 2 T 2 H 2 , D 2 , T 2 Hydrogen Isotope Separation Process
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Advances in Hydrogen Isotope Separation Using Thermal Cycling Absorption Process (TCAP)
X. Steve Xiao
Contributions: L.K. Heung, H.T. Sessions, S. Redd
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Hydrogen Isotope Separation Timeline
Discovery of deuterium 1931
Discovery of tritium 1934
Isotope separation in SRS
–Thermal diffusion 1957-1986
–Fractional absorption 1964-1968
–Batch Cryogenic distillation 1967-2004
–TCAP 1994-present
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TCAP Advance ContinuesTCAP concept invented at SRL 1980Experimental TCAP achieved 97% purity (D2, H2 ) 1983Prototype TCAP achieved 99% purity (D2, H2) 1989Pilot TCAP demonstrated (production-configured) 1993Production TCAP achieved target T2/D2 separation 1994Compact TnT design tested at LANL 2001Batch Cryogenic distillation column replaced by TCAP 2004Comp.-free CTC concept developed 2006Comp.-free CTC experiment reached 4,000 cycles 2009Inverse Column achieved 2X+ capacity & higher purity 2009Micro-TCAP (batch) for LLE 2013Mini-TCAP for Shine Medical Technologies 2014CTC-TCAP with inverse column for SRS Tritium plant 2014+