Separation of Gas Mixtures in a Supersonic Jet

1 August 1959

journal article
research article
Published by AIP Publishing in The Journal of Chemical Physics

Vol. 31 (2) , 405-419
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1730367

Abstract

In 1954, E. W. Becker and co‐workers in Marburg, Germany, discovered that large composition gradients existed in the supersonic jet generated by expanding a gas mixture through a Laval nozzle. Further experimental observations of this effect are presented for the mixtures A–N₂, O₂–N₂, and N₂–C₂H₄, showing characteristics of the phenomenon not previously reported. A quantitative theory based on free‐molecule kinetics is suggested, and gives reasonable agreement with the experimental results in several respects.

Keywords

KINETICS

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