Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation in Gravity Settler with Inclined Plates

AIChE Journal

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 802-811

  Schlieper, Lars ^a   Chatterjee, Michael ^a,b   Henschke, Martin ^a   Pfennig, Andreas ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Franken Filtertechnik KG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gravity settler; Inclined plates; Internals; Liquid liquid dispersions; Phase separation

Indexed keywords

CYLINDERS (SHAPES); DISPERSIONS; MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); REDUCTION;

ENGINEERING DESIGN; PHASE RATIOS; PHASE SEPARATORS;

PHASE SEPARATION;

DISPERSION; LIQUID-LIQUID SEPARATION; MEASUREMENT METHOD; SEPARATOR; SETTLING;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL PROCEDURES; CHEMICAL REACTION; DISPERSION; FLOW KINETICS; GRAVITY; LIQUID LIQUID EXTRACTION; SEPARATION TECHNIQUE;

EID: 1942469327     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.10075     Document Type: Article

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