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Title: INVENTION DESCRIPTION-DEVISES FOR IMPROVING THE EFFICIENCY OF SEPARATION IN PULSED LIQUID-LIQUID EXTRACTION COLUMNS

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:4834160

The use of preferentially organic-wet interplate packings or specially designed mechanical inserts to improve the operating efficiency of pulsed countercurrent liquid-liquid extraction columns is described. A method which proposes packing chosen interplate spaces with materials which are wet by the organic phase preferentially to the aqueous phase is discussed. With tight packing, alternation of continuous and dispersed phases is achieved. With loose packing or certain configurations of packing, complete disengaging and by-passing of the two phases without formation of a continuous organic phase will occur. (M.C.G.)

Research Organization:
General Electric Co. Hanford Atomic Products Operation, Richland, Wash.
DOE Contract Number:
W-31-109-ENG-52
NSA Number:
NSA-15-030766
OSTI ID:
4834160
Report Number(s):
HW-39938
Resource Relation:
Other Information: Orig. Receipt Date: 31-DEC-61
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English