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Title:	Separation of isomers via thermal parametric pumping
Author:	D'Emidio, Vincent J.
View Online:	njit-etd1975-009 (vi, 99 pages ~ 2.9 MB pdf)
Department:	Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry
Degree:	Master of Science
Program:	Chemical Engineering
Document Type:	Thesis
Advisory Committee:	Chen, Hung T. (Committee chair) Salamone, Jerome J. (Committee member) Hanesian, Deran (Committee member)
Date:	1975-06
Keywords:	Separation (Technology)
Availability:	Unrestricted
Abstract:	Continuous and semicontinuous thermal parametric pumps for separating isomers were experimentally investigated using the model system glucose-fructose-water on a cation exchange resin adsorbent. A comparison was made between the experimental data and the calculated results by a method based on an equilibrium theory. The method invokes the assumptions that a multicomponent mixture contains a series of pseudo binary systems. Each binary system consists of one of the solutes as one component and the common inert solvent as the other component. It has been shown that under certain conditions, the pump with feed at the enriched end has the capacity for complete removal of fructose from one product stream and at the same time give arbitrarily large enrichment of fructose in the other product stream.