Abstract
As a centrifugal contactor is a type of extractor which has high mass-transfer efficiency with short contacting time, it is effective to increase throughput and to protect solvent from radiolytic degradation. An experimental apparatus to study the characteristics of this contactor is made of metacrylate resin. First, from the measured data of interface location between heavy and light phases, the pressure drop at weir is expressed as a function of flow rate and rotation speed. An useful formulation is obtained to calculate the average diameter of droplet and the settling length required in the contactor. Then, transient response of the contactor for step input is measured, and the dynamics of centrifugal contactor is found to be a process of second-order with dead time. A discrete PI control algorithm is proposed for DDC simulation.
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