A microcomputer‐controlled facility for the analysis of phases from the AKUFVE mixer‐centrifuge unit

An AKUFVE mixer-centrifuge unit is used to collect distribution data for plutonium and uranium in a nitric acid/tributyl phosphate system under various conditions. The equipment necessary to make on-line measurements in both phases and to perform off-line titrations of the nitric acid is described. An explanation is given or the design of the Control Program. Written in BASIC with a few machine code subroutines, the program executes blocks of code of ‘sequences’ corresponding to particular functions. There are a dozen sequences which may be called in any order or individually to perform these functions.