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The Scaleup of Structured Packing from Distillation Pilot Plant Testing to Commercial Application
Date
1986-06Metadata
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Structured packing is being utilized more and more in
the process industry for increased efficiency, greater
capacity, and energy savings in distillation columns. Pilot
plant testing of the actual chemical system using commercially
available structured packing is invaluable, but years of
experience in pilot plant testing have shown that scaleup
to successful commercial designs is a complicated process.
In this paper an actual case history is cited as an
example of the problems and benefits of conducting pilot
plant tests which set the commercial design bases for a
distillation train. The actual pilot plant testing involved
a different structured packing type and blocked out operations
to simulate a large number of theoretical stages. The pilot
plant results verified the thermodynamic data to a high
confidence level. As a result, the initial commercial
installation of structured packing was started immediately.
The actual installation and the startup are covered with
a discussion of the energy savings and quality improvement
which were obtained by replacing trays with the packing.
Another case of retrofit testing in the new Koch Development
Pilot Plant is discussed indicating other areas for attention
to detail.
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Berven, O. J.; Ulowetz, M. A. (1986). The Scaleup of Structured Packing from Distillation Pilot Plant Testing to Commercial Application. Energy Systems Laboratory (http://esl.tamu.edu). Available electronically from https : / /hdl .handle .net /1969 .1 /92999.