Talk:Fenske equation

Expansion and copy editing of this article

I have just finished an extensive expansion and copy editing of this article as follows:

• I retained the original equations although I changed some of the notation to more common chemical engineering usage.
• I moved one of the forms of the Fenske equation to a separate section since it is a form which was derived for use in gas chromatography and is not the original form derived by Fenske in 1932.
• I discussed the fact that the Fenske equation yields the minimum number of theoretical plates required to separate a binary feed by distillation when the distillation is performed at total reflux.
• I added a diagram of a fractionating column operating at total reflux to illustrate what that means.
• I added a mention that the reboiler is one of the theoretical plates.
• I added a mention and citation to the fact that the Fenske equation can be modified to also handle multi-component feeds.
• I have added documenting reference citations, using the <ref>, </ref>, <references/> method.
• I added some external links to replace those which were used as documenting reference citations.
• I did quite a bit of Wikifying and copy editing.

I think the article is now fairly complete ... although I am sure others will add some edits. - mbeychok 00:46, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

US Naval Academy Reference??

Is the naval reference applicable for counter-current or co-current systems?

If no mention of liquid liquid extraction, I'll add a mention.

Bruce Schaller —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bruceschaller (talk • contribs) 00:18, 1 December 2009 (UTC)