information on.the operation of gas absorption equipment is at present quite inadequate to permit proper estimates and designs for new operations. Further progress in this field can be made most effectively through a study of the mechanism of absorption phenomena and of the factors which control them. When the basic principles have been definitely established, they can then be applied to specific problems by the engineer in the same manner as he now employs heat transfer coefficients, friction factors, and the like.The object of this paper is to outline certain of the more fundamental conceptions which have been developed from the available data and from the general laws of reactions between two phases.
In a bubblecap column the liquid on each plate is incompletely mixed, with the result that the plate efficiency, as ordinarily defined, becomes higher than the local "Murphree" efficiency of vapor enrichment.
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