Formulas for the separation potential and the separative power have been obtained in the present work by generalizing the classical theory of Dirac, with the observance of his two axioms, to the case of a multicomponent mixture without considering a concrete cascade scheme. The resulting expressions are general characteristics of a separation process, since they are applicable to any separation methods and are independentof the form of the components in the mixture. They can be used in constructing actual cascades for separation of multicomponent mixtures and in determining the indices of their effi ciency.
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Translated from Inzhenerno-FizicheskiiZhurnal, Vol. 87, No. 3, pp. 501–508, May–June, 2014.
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Palkin, V.A., Gadel′shin, V.M., Aleksandrov, O.E. et al. Multicomponent Separation Potential. Generalization of the Dirac Theory. J Eng Phys Thermophy 87, 515–523 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10891-014-1040-2
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