US 12,291,448 B2
Systems and methods for production of Xenon-133
Luis Antonio M. M. Barbosa, Bergen (NL); Sven V. Gerritsen, Alkmaar (NL); Martinus J. A. Schackmann, Heiloo (NL); Paul A. Gronland, Chesterfield, MO (US); and Brian Hierholzer, Lake St. Louis, MO (US)
Assigned to Curium US LLC, St. Louis, MO (US)
Filed by Curium US LLC, St. Louis, MO (US)
Filed on May 5, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/312,989.
Application 18/312,989 is a division of application No. 16/405,703, filed on May 7, 2019, granted, now 11,679,979.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/668,688, filed on May 8, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2023/0312346 A1, Oct. 5, 2023
Int. Cl. B01D 53/02 (2006.01); C01B 23/00 (2006.01)
CPC C01B 23/0063 (2013.01) 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A charcoal column assembly for separation of Xenon-133 from an off gas stream, the off gas stream generated during a Molybdenum-99 production process, the charcoal column assembly comprising:
a charcoal column having a volume of charcoal therein, the charcoal column having a top and a bottom;
a column flange having a first side and a second side, the column flange defining a flange inlet and a flange outlet, the charcoal column positioned on a first side of the column flange;
a fluid control assembly attached to the second side of the column flange, the fluid control assembly including an inlet assembly and an outlet assembly, wherein the top of the charcoal column is fluidly connected to the inlet assembly through the flange inlet; and
an outlet tube fluidly connected to the bottom of the charcoal column and to the outlet assembly through the flange outlet.