Distillation columns with vertical partitions

✍ Scribed by Dipl.-Ing. Gerd Kaibel

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1987
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 524 KB
• Volume: 10
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0930-7516
• DOI: 10.1002/ceat.270100112

✦ Synopsis

Distillation columns with vertical partitions can separate a feed mixture into 3 or 4 pure fractions.

Compared to other column arrangements, their investment costs and energy consumption are lower. Production columns show good results and are easily controlled. Conventional distillation columns produce only 2 pure product streams at the top and at the bottom of the column. Side