“…All of these two-dimensional systems feed the material to be separated at a single point in the cascade and hence greatly dilute the product, besides utilizing the cascade inefficiently. Several different physical forms of two-dimensional cascades have been studied, viz., the packed rotating annulus (Martin, 1949;Nicholas and Fox, 1969;Canon et al, 1980), the stationary annulus and rotating feed/product headers (Andrew, 1981), the rotating plate (Sussman et al, 1972), and the nonrotary GLC apparatus (Turina, 1962). Other two-dimensional separations are reviewed by Wankat (1984).…”