An experimental study with three different heterogeneous azeotropic mixtures (acetone/toluene/water, 1-propanol/1-butanol/ water and ethanol/cyclohexane/water) has been carried out with the object to analyze the separation efficiency of three-phase distillation in a packed column. The experiments we
Experimental investigation of column efficiency for two ternary systems in a three-phase packed distillation column
✍ Scribed by M. Amouei Torkmahalleh; M.M. Montazer Rahmati; B. Nematdoost Haghi
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 374 KB
- Volume
- 89
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-4034
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
In this work, the effect of vapor load and initial feed concentrations on column efficiency and liquid hold‐up in a two‐ and three‐phase packed distillation column at total reflux was investigated. Results for the two investigated mixtures (n‐heptane, n‐hexane, water) and (ethyl acetate, 1‐butanol, water) reveal that column efficiency remains almost constant for the former mixture but changes significantly for the latter. Specific liquid hold‐up and water to organic‐phase volumetric ratio within the column affect the column efficiency due to variations in initial feed concentrations. Influence of vapor load on separation efficiency and specific liquid hold‐up is also studied.
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