Precise determination of precipitation yield of uranyl nitrate with N-alkylated 2-pyrrolidone derivatives

Yields of precipitated UO2(NO3)(2)(NRP)(2) (NRP = N-alkylated 2-pyrrolidone) were precisely determined by considering reduction of the solution volume through the precipitation, which can be estimated from difference in acid concentrations of the liquid phases before and after the precipitation. The studied NRPs were N-n-butyl (NBP) and N-n-propyl (NProP) derivatives. In both systems, the precipitation yields precisely determined were always higher than those simply calculated from the ratio of uranium concentrations before and after the precipitation. However, the differences between them are in the range of 0.6%-2.6%. If such a difference is practically negligible, the volume reduction through the precipitation does not have to be taken into account for simplicity of the analytical manipulation.