Complex circuit mass balancing — A simple, practical ...
It has been shown (Smith and Frew, 1983) that, providing the mass flow of a reference stream (usually the feed) is known, the minimum number 250 of streams which must be sampled to ensure production of a complete cir- cuit mass balance is: N = 2(H + Z)-- 1 (7) where H = number of feed streams, and S = number of simple separators.