Design optimisation study of solvent extraction: Chemical reaction, mass transfer and mixer-settler hydrodynamics

Hydrometallurgy

Volumn 74, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 131-147

  Pinto, Gilberto A ^a   Durão, Fernando O ^b   Fiúza, António M A ^c   Guimarães, Margarida M B L ^a   Madureira, C M Novais ^c  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE ENGENHARIA DO PORTO   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Design; Mixer settler; Multiple criteria; Optimization; Solvent extraction

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL REACTIONS; DESIGN; HYDRODYNAMICS; LEACHING; MASS TRANSFER; MIXERS (MACHINERY); OPTIMIZATION;

AGITATION; METAL PURITY; MIXER-SETTLER; MULTIPLE CRITERIA;

SOLVENT EXTRACTION;

EID: 2942536319     PISSN: 0304386X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hydromet.2004.02.002     Document Type: Article

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