PROJECT REPORT

ON
ZIRCONIUM OXIDE PRODUCTION
AT
NUCLEAR FUEL COMPLEX

Submitted by
Sagiraju​ ​Rushendra Varma

​14065-CHPC-052

​ GOVT INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING

VISAKHAPATNAM
 Government of India
Department of Atomic Energy

​NUCLEAR FUEL COMPLEX

​BONAFIDE CERTIFICATE

T​ his is to certify that Mr S.Rushendra Varma​ ​has done

his project work under guidance during period from
01-06-2016 to 30-11-2016 on the topic entitled
STUDY OF ZIRCONIUM OXIDE PRODUCTION​ with
reference to Nuclear fuel complex.
It is ensured that the report does not contains
classified or plant operational live data in any form

​ Signature
Name
Designation of Guide
Plant
Hyderabad
Date
 ACKNOW LEDGEMENT
I express my gratefulness to Shri G.Kalyan Krishna
Chairman and chief executive, Nuclear Fuel Complex
(Hyderabad) and Smt Rama Ramesh Manager (Zop), for
allowing me to carry out project work at this esteemed
organization
I would like to thank Shri H R Ravindra DGM (HR) &
Dr B.N Murty AGM for helping me throughout our training
period at NFC and also conducting Awareness Programme on
DAE/NFC activites at HRD
I feel extremely delighted in acknowledgement my
project guide Shri P Thaygaraj Dy Manager (Zop)for keeping
me agile and zealous throughout course work I am deeply
indebted to him for his valuable encouragement and
enthusiastic personal interest during the entire course of this
project
Finally I would like to thanks all those who have
directly or indirectly helped in the successful completion of
the training
 DECLARATION
I do hereby solemnly declare that the project of entitled
“Study of Zirconium oxide production” in Nuclear fuel
complex [Hyderabad] which is being submitted by me in
partial fulfilment for the award of Diploma (Petro chemical)
By GOVT INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING,
VISAKHAPATNAM is an original one.

S.Rushendra varma
14065-CHPC-052

Signature of the guide

 SCRUBBING

The process of selectively removing Contamination solute

(impurities) from an extract by treatment with a new
immiscible phase
Raw materials:
Organic (extract) from the slurry extraction
Pure solution from Stripping
Nitric acid
Process:
The extract from slurry extraction that contain
minimum amount of hafnium compounds is sent for
scrubbing into the conventional mixer-settler here it is
scrubbed with the pure solution which is in aqueous solution
of pure zirconium nitrate obtained from the stripping
process.The scrubbing operation is a counter current
operation.Both the phase are mixed in a mixer, which
essentially consists of an agitator, side baffles and two inlets
for organic and aqueous phases.