The Interaction of Solute Transfer, Contaminants and Drop Break-up in Rotating Disc Contactors: Part I. Correlation of Drop Breakage Probabilities

Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering

Volumn 75, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1046-1055

  Cauwenberg, Veerle ^a   Degrève, Jan ^a   Slater, Michael J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Drop break up; Liquid liquid extraction; Mass transfer; Rotating disc contactor

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL REACTORS; DROP BREAKUP; EXTRACTION; INTERFACIAL ENERGY; MASS TRANSFER; SHEAR STRESS; SURFACE TENSION;

EXTRACTION COLUMNS; ROTATING DISC CONTACTOR;

ROTATING DISKS;

DROPLET; EXTRACTION COLUMN; LIQUID-LIQUID EXTRACTION;

EID: 0031392321     PISSN: 00084034     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cjce.5450750607     Document Type: Article

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