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Vapor-liquid contacting is a key phenomenon encountered in various separation processes, the most commercially important of which is distillation. Although the microprocess technology has been applied on the micro scale for some time, efficient microscale devices applicable for separating components have not been available until past few years. The present review describes the microscale equipment for separation with distillation, with the focus on two operation principles: concurrent and counter-current.
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Original Russian Text © A.T. Sundberg, P. Uusi-Kyyny, V. Alopaeus, 2011, published in Rossiiskii Khimicheskii Zhurnal, 2011, Vol. 55, No. 2, pp. 52–59.
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Sundberg, A.T., Uusi-Kyyny, P. & Alopaeus, V. Microscale distillation. Russ J Gen Chem 82, 2079–2087 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1070363212120286
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