# US 4,396,572 A · Support for porous barriers made of baked ceramic material

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- Number: US 4,396,572 A
- Document ID: US4396572A
- Status: Granted
- Kind: A
- Application number: 05/403,988
- Filed: 1973-10-05
- Granted: 1983-08-02
- Earliest claimed: 1971-02-24
- Assignees: Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique
- Inventors: Jean Batigne; Jean Charpin; Rodolphe Davydoff; Francois Erhart; Pierre Plurien
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US4396572A

## CPC

- B01D 69/088: {Co-extrusion; Co-spinning}
- B01D 59/14: Construction of the barrier
- B01D 71/02: Inorganic material
- C04B 38/00: Porous mortars, concrete, artificial stone or ceramic ware; Preparation thereof (treating slag with gases or gas generating material C04B5/06 {; expanded graphite C04B35/536})
- C04B 2111/00612: {as one or more layers of a layered structure}
- Y10S 264/48: Processes of making filters
- B01D: SEPARATION (separating solids from solids by wet methods B03B, B03D; by pneumatic jigs or tables B03B; by other dry methods B07; magnetic or electrostatic separation of solid materials from solid materials or fluids, separation by high-voltage electric fields B03C; centrifuges, vortex apparatus B04; presses per se for squeezing-out liquid from liquid-containing material B30B9/02; treatment of water C02F, e.g. softening by ion-exchange C02F1/42; {arrangements of air intake cleaners in gas turbine plants F02C7/05} ; arrangements or mounting of filters in air-conditioning, air-humidification or ventilation F24F13/28)
- C04B: LIME, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; COMPOSITIONS THEREOF, e.g. MORTARS, CONCRETE OR LIKE BUILDING MATERIALS; ARTIFICIAL STONE {(roofing granules E04D7/005)}; CERAMICS (devitrified glass-ceramics C03C10/00); REFRACTORIES; TREATMENT OF NATURAL STONE
- Y10S: TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS

## Abstract

The invention relates to a support for a ceramic porous barrier of the kind used for obtaining a concentration of uranium 235 in uranium hexafluoride by ultrafiltration. The support is formed by superposing a number of layers in the form of pastes, the particle size being homogeneous and constant in each layer and decreasing from the outer towards the inner layers. The pastes are prepared from powdered materials such as metals, oxides, silicates, borides, nitrides and halides to which mineral binders are added. The pastes are simultaneously extruded or co-extruded after which the resulting support is baked.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A method of preparing a support for porous barriers including the steps of preparing various pastes, each paste corresponding to a future layer and having a composition, a particle size and properties appropriate to the layer, then disposing the paste in the corresponding number of superposed layers then extruding simultaneously a support and then baking the support.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

A method according to claim 1, including the step of preparing the pastes from powdered materials selected from the group consisting of metals, oxides, silicates, borides, nitrides and halides, to which binders are added.

### Claim 3 (depends on 2)

A method according to claim 2, the binders being mineral and selected from the group consisting of clay, kaolin and inorganic gels.

### Claim 4 (depends on 2)

A method according to claim 2, the binders being organic.

### Claim 5 (depends on 1)

A method according to claim 1, including the step of mixing and de-aerating the pastes before the extrusion step.

### Claim 6 (depends on 1)

A method according to claim 1, including the step of roughly welding the superposed layers together before the extrusion or co-extrusion step.

### Claim 7 (depends on 5)

A method according to claim 5, said de-aeration step being performed by forcing the pastes through a helix and through a grid and by taking up the finely-divided pastes in another grid and forcing them through a large spinneret, said steps being performed in vacuo.

### Claim 8 (depends on 1)

A method according to claim 1, including the steps of receiving the products obtained by extrusion on plaster cradles, then dried, then cut, and then deposited on a bed of electroc-melted alumina disposed at the bottom of a sagger, then pouring electro-melted alumina between the products up to but no higher than their upper level and then placing the assembly in an oven for first baking, and then baking the products in conventional manner.

### Claim 9 (depends on 8)

A method according to claim 8, wherein a statistical test by bulloscopy is made in order to detect any crazing of the outer layer.