Reconstruction of a Battery Extraction Plant

✍ Scribed by Liebing, H.

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1977
• Weight: 667 KB
• Volume: 79
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0931-5985
• DOI: 10.1002/lipi.19770790304

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

There is described the reformation of a battery‐extraction plant (handling capacity 800 t of soya/24 h), whereby one has obtained the same consumption data (steam, water, solvent) of working materials as those, obtained with a Konti‐extraction plant, exhausting fully the steam, which is developed in the extraction vessel. In particular, it will be shown how to overcome difficulties arising when changing quantity, pressure, temperature, and respectively composition of the extraction‐vapours, and when the extraction‐vapour flow will temporarily be interrupted owing to the changing‐over from one extractor vessel to the next one. Following this, various special features in the final stage of the miscella distillation section will be pointed out. The plant reconstruction described in these essays should be of particular interest to those companies whose battery extraction units, though still functioning, have high specific steam and water consumption figures owing to insufficient utilization of the vapours.