A prospective 99mTc organic radiotracer for applications in the Oil Industry

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radiotracer; extraction performance; gravitational separator;multiphase flow

Abstract

Radiotracers are very important in the oil industry. The extraction with trioctylamine (TOA) and tributylphosphate (TBF) has been used to obtain a radiotracer in organic phase from the eluent of the 99Mo/99mTc generator. In this work we studied the influence of the phase separation method in the extraction of technetium 99 metastable pertechnetate (
). Centrifugation was necessary to obtain adequate separation. The formulation TBF-TOA-cyclohexane was optimized for the extraction of 600 MBq activity of
, perspective for industrial scale applications. Additionally, with 7.53%TBF-0.77%TOA-cyclohexane formulation, the highest extraction yield (96.86%) was achieved. A laboratory installation that simulates a continuous horizontal gravitational separator (oil-water layer), was constructed and evaluated.

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2021-10-26

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Batista-Roche, J. L. (2021). A prospective 99mTc organic radiotracer for applications in the Oil Industry. Revista Cubana De Química, 33(3), 291–304. Retrieved from https://cubanaquimica.uo.edu.cu/index.php/cq/article/view/5187

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