Abstract
The concept of the "efficiency" of a plate that is the ratio of the number of theoretical plates to the number of actual plates is analyzed. A dependence of the efficiency on the transmissive capacities of the masstransfer stages is revealed. Expressions for analytical calculation of the plate efficiency in the case of linear approximation and different hypotheses on the structure of flows on a plate are obtained. It is shown that the efficiency can be larger than unity.
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Zakharenko, V.V., Malysheva, Y.A. & Khandazhinskaya, A.L. "Efficiency" of a plate from the viewpoint of the transmissive capacities of the mass-transfer stages. J Eng Phys Thermophys 72, 303–308 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02699155
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02699155