Abstract:
Enriched tungsten-186 oxide is one of the stable isotope products of tungsten. It is used to prepare the radioactive medical isotope product
188WO
3, which can be used as the target material of
188W/
188Re generator to produce medical
188Re isotope product, so as to meet the increasing requirements of biomedical markers, bone cancer treatment and other medical related fields. In order to satisfy the current market demand for
186WO
3, the preparation process of
186WO
3 with tungsten-186 hexafluoride (186WF6) as the raw material was studied and determined. The key parameters of preparation processes were systematically optimized, and the influence of essential parameters on the
186WO
3 product purity and process yield was obtained, which determined the optimal process parameters. Finally, the high conversion rate process route was achieved, and the enriched
186WO
3 products were obtained. The chemical purity of
186WO
3 can reach 99.91%-99.93% with the process yield of 89.8%-90.5% under the optimal process conditions. The research consequences of this article can provide a theoretical and experimental basis for the batch preparation of
186WO
3, and give the technical reference for the process of preparing metal oxides from other similar gas-phase fluorides.