Catalysis for Gaseous and Liquid Waste Detritiation

Dear Colleagues,

We invite you to present the results of your research for publication in a Special Issue of the journal Catalysts dedicated to the catalysts used in the detritiation of liquid radioactive waste and the technologies in which they are used. In many countries of the world that operate nuclear and thermonuclear energy facilities, these technologies are becoming increasingly important in connection with the tightening legislation that determines the permissible limits for the discharge of the radioactive isotope of hydrogen—tritium—into the environment. Regardless of the nature of the sources contaminated with tritium—solid, liquid, and gaseous—water is usually used as a working substance for the final process of the detritiation of the generated waste. Catalysts are used both at the stage of the conversion of a tritium-containing precursor into water (the oxidation of hydrogen or an organic compound) and at the stage of subsequent isotope separation in order to obtain a product purified from tritium and its concentrate (for example, catalytic chemical isotope exchange in a water–hydrogen system). A possible variant of the waste detritiation process is a complex scheme, at the final stage of which the hydrogen distillation process is used, in which catalysts also play an important role. The purpose of this Special Issue of the journal is to collect, in a concentrated form, both prospecting and already completed developments in the field of creating effective technologies for waste detritiation.

Submit your paper and select the Journal “Catalysts” and the Special Issue “Catalysis for Gaseous and Liquid Waste Detritiation” via: MDPI submission system. Please contact the Guest Editor or the journal editor ([email protected]) for any queries. Our papers will be published on a rolling basis and we will be pleased to receive your submission once you have finished it.

Prof. Michael Borisovich Rozenkevich
Prof. Irina Leonidovna Rastunova
Dr. Alexey Nikolaevich Bukin
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

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• waste
• tritium
• environmental protection
• catalytic processes
• isotope exchange
• water
• hydrogen