Gaseous diffusion stage power requirement

If the power requirement of the gaseous diffusion process were no greater than the power required to recompress the stage upflow from the pressure on the low-pressure side of the barrier to that on the high-pressure side, then the power requirement of the stage would be Z RTLq (1 /r) for the case where the compression is performed isotherm ally. The power requirement per unit of separative capacity would then be given simply by the ratio... 

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