Collect. Czech. Chem. Commun. 1980, 45, 2164-2170
https://doi.org/10.1135/cccc19802164

A method of mass transfer calculation in a back-flow model

Josef Vrba

Institute of Chemical Process Fundamentals, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, 165 02 Prague-Suchdol

Abstract

Instead of solving a set of N nonlinear equations (as has been proposed by the author and his coworker), the problem may be solved iteratively as a linear one. The proposed method converges rapidly and the number of iterations is practically constant regardless of the number of stages in countercurrent cascade N and the degree of nonlinearity of equilibrium formula. The method proved to be suitable for computation on desk-top calculator.