Performance Analysis of Rotating Disc Contactor (RDC) Column

Liquid-liquid extraction is one of the most important separation processes. Different kinds of liquid-liquid extrator such as Rotating Disc Contactor (RDC) Column being used in industries. The study of liquid-liquid extraction in an RDC column has be come a very important subject to be discussed not just amongst chemical engineers but mathematicans as well. In this study, the performance of small diameter column RDC using the chemical system involving cumene/isobutryric asid/water are analyzed by the method of design of the experiments (DOE). DOE are applied to estimated the effect of four independent variable; protor speed, flow rate, concentration of continuous inlet and dispersed inlet and their interaction factor to detemine the most significant factor that effect the concentration of continuous and dispersed outlet as output parameters.