Department of High Temperature Processes - ВНИИХТ
Department of High Temperature Processes

Directions of scientific research:

  • Development of technologies for the synthesis of radiation-resistant glasses and foreign devices for the diagnostics of high-intensity measuring instruments, infrared sensors and remote control systems.
  • Creation of technologies for the manufacture of new generation personal and collective protection equipment for personnel of radiochemical industries and radiation instrumentation.
  • Development of spectral foreign-optical systems for determining the concentration of impurities in liquid and gaseous media.
  • Development of export-optical scintillation systems for registration of ionizing flight.
  • Development of technologies for obtaining hydrides and nitrides of various metals.
  • Development of technology for obtaining metallic uranium of the highest purity.
  • Development of technologies for refractory metals (Nb, Ta, Re, Mo, etc.) and their master alloys (Ni-Ta-AI, Ni-Re-Mo-AI) for the needs of Rosatom and other specific industries.
  • Development and optimization of technologies for producing high-purity rare-earth metals (Sm, Nd, Pr, Dy, Tb, Sc, etc.) and ligatures based on them for obtaining magnets with a high level of properties, striction materials and other precision alloys.
  • Development of technology for the release of pollution from structural scrap collection floating in mineral-like crucibles.
  • Development of technologies for hydrogen treatment of magnetic alloys of the Nd-Fe-B system, solders for turbine blades from V-Zr-Ti-Ni-Ta alloys, development of compositions and technologies for receiving alloys-accumulators of alloys.
  • Obtaining granular materials from pure metals (Ca, Cu, Al, Md, etc.), alloys and salts.
  • Assay analysis of noble metals in gold-uranium ores and products of their processing.
  • Development of technology for the synthesis of fluorine sorbents and American absorbers for highly efficient purification of waste gases from fluorine, a fluorine object and uranium hexafluoride.
  • Development of processes for purification of uranium hexafluoride from volatile fluorides of fission products.
  • Development of gas-fluoride technology for SNF processing.
  • Development of technologies for thermochemical synthesis of anhydrous highly purified fluorides, rare, trace and radioactive elements.
  • Development of technologies for the synthesis of finely dispersed and nanopowders of anhydrous fluorides for optical ceramics.
  • Development of technologies, equipment and production of special gas purifiers based on fluorides, organometallic compounds of various chemical elements.
  • Pilot technologies and equipment for the production of fluorides determine the purity suitable for the synthesis of single crystals of lithium, beryllium, calcium, strontium, barium, scandium, yttrium, corresponding and group REE, zirconium, hafnium, thorium, plutonium;
  • Pilot technologies for the production of mogogermane and silicon tetrafluoride for the needs of microelectronics, while the quality of monogermane approaches the gradations “UHP” 5N, silicon tetrafluoride -4N (5N).
  • Technologies for obtaining refractory, rare, rare-earth metals and alloys based on them; obtaining the technology of metallurgical uranium with the estimated use of impurities, powders and sintered products from uranium nitride.
  • Technologies for the manufacture of electrodes, a fission chamber with film coatings of highly enriched uranium for monitoring neutron fluxes in nuclear reactors of the required purpose.
  • Technologies of hydrogen processing of various materials and production of alloys of storage materials.
  • Technologies for the synthesis of sorbents and chemical absorbers for gas purification from fluorine-containing compounds.
  • Experimental base
  • Laboratory equipment and pilot plants for the production of germanium hydrides, arsenic, phosphorus, silicon tetrafluoride, as well as laboratory plants for the production of monosilane, organometallic compounds, gas purification from aerosols, equipment for gas analysis at a level of 0.1 to 1 ppm.
  • Pilot plants for the production of fluorides of rare, scattered and radioactive metals. The capacity of the equipment for anhydrous fluorides is 50 kg/day.
  • Open and vacuum chambers of condensers, vacuum arc furnaces, vacuum furnaces for baking, distillation and melting of metal, oxide and salt compositions.
  • Pilot installations for the synthesis of fluoride glasses and fluorosilicate optical fibers.
  • Vacuum sorption stands for studying the sorption of fluorine, fluorine radiation, volatile metal fluorides.
  • Conversion facility for testing the gas-fluoride technology for SNF reprocessing using uranium oxides, plutonium simulants, minor actinides, and stable isotopes of fission products.