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Design Concept of a Sieve Plate Distributor for Liquid‐Liquid Extraction – Part 1: Laboratory‐Scale Experiments and Design
Author(s) -
Koch J.,
Vogelpohl A.
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
chemical engineering and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.403
H-Index - 81
eISSN - 1521-4125
pISSN - 0930-7516
DOI - 10.1002/1521-4125(200107)24:7<695::aid-ceat695>3.0.co;2-y
Subject(s) - distributor , sieve (category theory) , scale (ratio) , extraction (chemistry) , scale up , liquid phase , chromatography , process engineering , materials science , engineering , mechanical engineering , mathematics , chemistry , thermodynamics , physics , classical mechanics , combinatorics , quantum mechanics
The design of liquid distributors in liquid‐liquid extraction is mostly based on practical experience. In a two‐part contribution, a new concept for the design of a technical‐scale sieve plate distributor is presented in which phase distribution is decoupled from drop formation. The first part describes the choice of a suitable distributor geometry and a mathematical model for precalculating the mean droplet diameter on the basis of laboratory‐scale experiments.