The Combined Effect of Diffusion and Evaporation on the Molecular Distillation of Ideal Binary Liquid Mixtures

Autor: W. J. Hassink, Eli Ruckenstein, Sathya Murthy V. Gourisankar
Rok vydání: 1983
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Zdroj: Separation Science and Technology. 18:523-545
ISSN: 1520-5754
0149-6395
DOI: 10.1080/01496398308060292
Popis: A treatment which takes into account the effects of both diffusion in the liquid film and evaporation on the rate of molecular distillation of binary liquid mixtures in the falling film and rotary cone stills has been developed. The conditions under which the rate of molecular distillation in these stills is determined by either evaporation alone or evaporation together with diffusion have been identified. The interface temperature, film thickness, and concentration profiles were obtained by a numerical solution of the system equations for both cases. For the falling film stills, the limiting case of an evaporation rate controlled process was approached when, at the inlet of the still, the ratio EI = k 1 δ 0/D was less than 0.1 for all the ratios KI = k 2/k 1 greater than 0.086, where k 1 and k 2 are the evaporation rate coefficients of the more and less volatile components of the mixture, respectively, D is the diffusion coefficient of the more volatile component, δ0 is the initial film thicknes...
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