Stagewise mass transfer processes

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Fair, J. R., Stagewise Mass Transfer Processes, in A. Bisio and R. L. Kabel (Eds.), Scaleup of Chemical Processes, Wiley, New York, 1985, Chap. 12. 

Mass transfer processes involving two fluid streams are frequently carried out in a column countercurrent flow is usually employed although co-current flow may be advantageous in some circumstances. There are two principal ways in which the two streams may be brought into contact in a continuous process so as to permit mass transfer to take place between them, and these are termed stagewise processes and continuous differential contact processes. 

Mass transfer separation processes, e.g., distillation, gas absorption, etc., are normally treated in terms of stagewise or differential procedures. In a stagewise procedure, concentration changes are taken to occur in distinct jumps, as, for... 

The transfer of mass as well as heat from one material phase to another is quite commonly encountered in chemical process flow sheets. The same physical laws, rate equations, and design principles can be applied to mass-transfer operations as occurring in absorption, adsorption, crystal-lization, distillation, drying, extraction, jluidization, and humidification Equipment is designed to obtain intimate contact between phases, in either a stagewise or continuous manner, and many special types of equipment have been developed for any given operation. This discussion will be limited to the conventional types of equipment. 

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