Abstract
We investigate the turbulent flow of a gas in a packed column; taking account of this flow, we obtain a general analytic expression for the height of the equilibrium stage in the separation of isotopes by the distillation method.
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Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 43, No. 1, pp. 117–124, July, 1982.
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Kaminskii, V.A., Ledyakov, Y.K. & Dzhandzhgava, B.S. Mass exchange in isotope separation by the distillation method. Journal of Engineering Physics 43, 797–802 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00827734
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00827734