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Component-transfer equation in column with longitudinal separation

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method of “integration over the transverse coordinate,” a transfer equation in a separating column in obtained, taking the longitudinal enrichment mechanism into account.

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Abbreviations

jr, jz :

density of radial and axial diffusional flows of the heavy component

c:

heavy-component concentration

¯c:

mean (over the cross section) concentration

c0 :

concentration is feed cross section, z=L/2

z:

longitudinal coordinate

vz :

axial component of hydrodynamic mixture velocity

v *z :

velocity corresponding to condition of maximum enrichment factor

ψ:

current function

ρ :

mixture density

p:

pressure,α p,α t, barodiffusional and thermodiffusional constants

T2, T1 :

temperature of hot axial and cold near-wall chamber regions

W:

electric power absorbed by gas-discharge plasma

Vph :

phase velocity of traveling magnetic wave

η :

dynamic viscosity

λ=τ/(K3+ εzK2):

relative drawoff

L, R:

column length and radius

M:

ionic mass of readily ionized component

Qni, qnN :

effective cross section for collisions of atoms of separation mixture with ions and added neutrals, respectively

D:

mutual diffusion factor of mixture isotopes

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Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 39, No. 1, pp. 81–85, July, 1980.

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Potanin, E.P. Component-transfer equation in column with longitudinal separation. Journal of Engineering Physics 39, 771–774 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00821833

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