Inventors:
Mark A. Burns - Ann Arbor MI
Lisa L. Evans - Ann Arbor MI
Assignee:
The Board of Regents acting for and on the behalf of the University of
Michigan - Ann Arbor MI
International Classification:
B01D 1504
Abstract:
A device, and process, for continuously separating dissolved solutes and suspended particles from a multicomponent fluid phase in a magnetically stabilized fluidized bed (MSFB). The process is of the type wherein a solid resin and a liquid buffer move countercurrent to each other in the bed. In steady state operation, a time invariant pH gradient will form in the bed and remain spatially fixed. Other condition variables, such as temperature, can be used to form a time invariant gradient provided that equilibrium partition between the solid and liquid phases is a function of the condition variable.