SEPARATION POTENTIAL FOR MULTICOMPONENT MIXTURES: STATE-OF-THE ART OF THE PROBLEM

Various approaches used in introducing a separation potential (value function) for multicomponent mixtures have been analyzed. It has been shown that all known potentials do not satisfy the Dirac–Peierls axioms for a binary mixture of uranium isotopes, which makes their practical application diffi cult. This is mainly due to the impossibility of constructing a "standard" cascade, whose role in the case of separation of binary mixtures is played by the ideal cascade. As a result, the only universal search method for optimal parameters of the separation cascade is their numerical optimization by the criterion of the minimum number of separation elements in it.
   
Author:  G. A. Sulaberidze, V. D. Borisevich, and A. Yu. Smirnov
Keywords:  value function, separation power, separation element, separation cascade
Page:  251