1. Discuss the effect of increasing the number of co-current stages in the present recovery a. For ideal leaching stages b. For non-ideal leaching stages
Increasing the number of stages increases the amount of material that can be recovered from leaching.
This is because more time is provided for mass transfer to take place. But as the solution approaches equilibrium, the number of stages required is more even for a very percentage of separation.
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