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15 - General Engineering
Brunel University London
Intermittent counter-current extraction—Equilibrium cell model, scaling and an improved bobbin design
This international collaboration between Brunel University’s experts in continuous counter-current extraction/chromatography and leading Russian theoreticians of liquid-liquid extraction processes (A. Kostanyan and A. Voshkin, Kurnakov Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences) has allowed the development of a more detailed model for intermittent counter-current extraction which takes into account both axial mixing and interphase mass transfer which effect the efficiency of a separation. This model reduces the need for preliminary experiments with potentially high value compounds.