But you know, this process is just one step longer than the typical one for making nickel metal from nickel ore: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mond_process
On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 8:06 AM, kulintsov <[email protected]> wrote: > If we are talking about separation only, then we must start with evaporating > of approximately 30 kg of nickel carbonyl. > http://books.google.com/books?id=Sfvbgvu9OQMC&pg=PA583&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=4#v=onepage&q&f=false > You need 4 MJ or 1.1 kW.h for vaporization only > But this substance is very volatile and have boiling point 42.5 C, so you > need only change pressure by small amount and then let nature do the rest of > the work. There is way to separate isotopes by doing cycles of evaporation > only because molecules with Ni-58 should be first one to evaporate. I don't > know which method is more preferred: to complete series of evaporation or to > centrifuge gas. This estimating is difficult for me to make right now. > > I want to emphasize the point that there is no need for Rossi to do any > energetically costly procedures. Most of steps in the route are exothermic > and he just need to find cheap chemicals for this. Only one of them that is > relatively hard to get is nickel carbonyl. The environmental issues are not > hard work for Rossi and nickel carbonyl is easily decompose in air, so I > think he can manage it. > > On 11/07/2011 06:58 AM, Berke Durak wrote: >> >> Hi Pasha, >> >> Could you give an estimate for the energy required for >> preparing 10 kg of nickel following that procedure? >> >> Rossi claims 200 W.h is sufficient. >
