Experimental Study on Preparing Gaseous Methyl Iodide by Chlorotrimelthylsilane/Sodium Iodide

The experiments were carried out to study the feasibility of substituting the extremely toxic dimethyl sulfate (DMS) with nontoxic reagents in preparing the gaseous methyl iodide to measure the scrubbing efficiency of iodine adsorber. The test results show that the reaction of chlorotrimelthylsilane/sodium iodide (or potassium iodide) as a iodating agent and phosphate methylesters is a good substitution method, the reaction conditions and productivity of methyl iodide can meet the requirements of both workshop and in-place tests of iodine adsorber, and the substitutes have little influence on the nuclear grade immersed activated carbon filled in the iodine adsorber. The substitution method can substitute the DMS method to prepare gaseous methyl iodide.