Stage efficiency of Hanson mixer-settler extraction column

Chemical Engineering and Processing: Process Intensification

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 224-228

  Torab Mostaedi, Meisam ^a,b   Safdari, Jaber ^b   Moosavian, Mohammad Ali ^a   Maragheh, Mohammad Ghannadi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Iran)

Author keywords

Axial mixing; Hanson extraction column; Mass transfer direction; Stage efficiency; Throughput

Indexed keywords

AGITATION SPEED; AXIAL MIXING; CALCULATED VALUES; EMPIRICAL CORRELATIONS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FLOW RATIOS; HANSON EXTRACTION COLUMN; HANSON MIXER-SETTLER; SOLUTE CONCENTRATIONS; TOLUENE-ACETONE-WATER SYSTEM;

ACETONE; MASS TRANSFER; MIXERS (MACHINERY); MIXING; NANOFLUIDICS; PILOT PLANTS; TOLUENE;

THROUGHPUT;

EID: 67651181277     PISSN: 02552701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cep.2008.03.010     Document Type: Article

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