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Studies of Intensified Small-scale Processes for Liquid-Liquid Separations in Spent Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing

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Operations in intensified channels have emerged as an important area of research and have found numerous applications in (bio)chemical analysis and synthesis, reactors, micro-power generation, fuel cells and thermal management systems.

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Tsaoulidis, D.A. (2015). Literature Review. In: Studies of Intensified Small-scale Processes for Liquid-Liquid Separations in Spent Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22587-6_2

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