Separation Science and Technology, Vol.48, No.8, 1151-1158, 2013
Modified Separation Theory of Heavy Water Enrichment by Thermal Diffusion in the Cocurrent-Flow Frazier Schemes
The separation theory for heavy water enrichment from water-isotope mixture in the cocurrent-flow Frazier scheme of thermal diffusion columns, has been modified with the values of pseudo product form of concentration determined by the method of least squares method, instead of simply taking the concentration in the product form as the feed concentration performed in previous works. The results indicate that serious errors occurred for the estimation of heavy water enrichment in the previous works, especially for employing the Frazier scheme with a larger number of thermal diffusion columns.