Experimental demonstration of rotating spiral microchannel distillation

Chemical Engineering Journal

Volumn 159, Issue 1-3, 2010, Pages 159-169

  MacInnes, J M ^a   Ortiz Osorio, J ^a   Jordan, P J ^a   Priestman, G H ^a   Allen, R W K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Centrifugal; Coriolis; Distillation; Intensification; Mass transfer; Microchannel; Phase contacting

Indexed keywords

2-BUTENE; BINARY DISTILLATION; CENTRIFUGAL; CENTRIFUGAL FORCES; CORIOLIS; FLOWING LIQUID; MULTISTAGE DISTILLATION; PHASE FLOW; PROTOTYPE DEVICES; QUANTITATIVE DATA; ROTATION RATE; SECONDARY MOTION; SURFACE FORCES; THERMAL ASPECTS; VAPOUR LAYER;

BUTENES; CENTRIFUGATION; DISTILLATION; HYDROCARBONS; MASS TRANSFER; PARALLEL FLOW; ROTATION;

MICROCHANNELS;

EID: 77950020930     PISSN: 13858947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2010.02.030     Document Type: Article

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