A High-Capacity Annular Centrifugal Contactor

Spatiotemporal Patterns in Liquid-Liquid Taylor-Couette-Poiseuille Flow

“…[3][4][5]) or to liquid-solid systems [6,7]. Little is known about the effects on the hydrodynamic structure of adding a second immiscible liquid phase in the presence of an applied axial flow, even though such systems are employed as liquid-liquid extraction devices with high interphase mass-transfer efficiencies [8][9][10]. In one of the few published studies of liquid-liquid Taylor-Couette flow, the presence of the dispersed phase was found to increase the circumferential mixing [11].…”

Novel highly integrated biodiesel production technology in a centrifugal contactor separator device

“…The CCS was originally designed for waste water cleaning in the nuclear industry [26] and has been used successfully for oil-water separation [27] (e.g. for cleaning oils spills [28]), for extraction of fermentation broths [29] and several other extraction processes [30][31][32][33].…”

Experimental study of the hydraulic operation of an annular centrifugal contactor with various mixing vane geometries

“…2 The initial design of the annular centrifugal contactor was done at Argonne National Laboratory by modification of a Savannah River Laboratory (SRL) contactor. 3,4 A sketch of a general Argonne contactor is shown in Figure 1. Contactors are typically referred to by the diameter of the rotor.…”