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On the separation of gas mixtures in a jet
Author(s) -
Gose Earl E.
Publication year - 1960
Publication title -
aiche journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.958
H-Index - 167
eISSN - 1547-5905
pISSN - 0001-1541
DOI - 10.1002/aic.690060133
Subject(s) - jet (fluid) , separation (statistics) , chemistry , kinetic energy , mechanics , component (thermodynamics) , jet stream , thermodynamics , physics , classical mechanics , mathematics , statistics
In 1954 Becker found that the components of a gas mixture could be separated by allowing a jet of the gas mixture to expand in a low‐pressure chamber. The heavier molecules would concentrate near the center of the jet and the lighter ones near the edge. Thus the jet could be split into two streams, one containing more of the heavy component and one containing more of the light component. In this paper it will be shown that this effect can be predicted from the kinetic theory of gases and that the predicted magnitude of the effect agrees favorably with the experimental data of Becker.