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2-Column Tray Design

This document discusses distillation and absorption column tray design. It covers different tray types including sieve, valve, and enhance deck trays. It also discusses operational limits for trays and design considerations like diameter, tray spacing, downcomer area, hole diameter, packing height, and packing diameter. Random and structured packing options are presented including Flexipack, Sulzer, and ceramic types. Design parameters like flooding velocity, residence time, pressure drop, and efficiency are addressed.

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2-Column Tray Design

This document discusses distillation and absorption column tray design. It covers different tray types including sieve, valve, and enhance deck trays. It also discusses operational limits for trays and design considerations like diameter, tray spacing, downcomer area, hole diameter, packing height, and packing diameter. Random and structured packing options are presented including Flexipack, Sulzer, and ceramic types. Design parameters like flooding velocity, residence time, pressure drop, and efficiency are addressed.

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DISTILLATION/ABSORPTION COLUMN TRAY DESIGN

Trays types
Sieve

Valve

Enhance Deck (Sulzer)

ChE 4253 - Design I

Bubble cap

DISTILLATION/ABSORPTION COLUMN TRAY DESIGN


Operational limits for trays.

ChE 4253 - Design I

DISTILLATION/ABSORPTION COLUMN TRAY DESIGN


Design Point

ChE 4253 - Design I

DISTILLATION/ABSORPTION COLUMN TRAY DESIGN


Diameter first. Design for velocity. Flooding velocity given by (are you surprised?)

Faircorrelation

AN

Use ~80% of flooding velocity. Diameter is a function of the NET area AN

ChE 4253 - Design I

DISTILLATION/ABSORPTION COLUMN TRAY DESIGN


Tray Spacing: Large if froth is expected, also allow space for crawling (12 to 24).
Downcomer area: Fluid velocity larger than ascending bubbles (minimum width: 5)
Range of velocities= 0.1-0.7 ft/sec. Residence time criteria (3-5 sec) . Downcomer
flooding should be avoided.
Hole diameter: 3/16 to in.
Total Hole Area: Such that the velocity
through the holes does not form jets)
2
hole diameter
AAll holes
=K

Aholes
hole pitch

K = 0.905(equilateral triangular pitch) K = 0.785(rectangular pitch)

Number of Holes: Hole area/Total hole area


Height of weir: Francis formula
Pressure drop: to be watched. Do not want it to be too large (5-10). Typical value
~0.1 psi
Efficiency: Murphy & Point Efficiency. There are correlations. In the absence of
data look for similar mixtures.

ChE 4253 - Design I

DISTILLATION/ABSORPTION PACKED COLUMN DESIGN


Packed Towers

ChE 4253 - Design I

DISTILLATION/ABSORPTION COLUMN TRAY


DESIGN
Random Packing

ChE 4253 - Design I

DISTILLATION/ABSORPTION COLUMN TRAY


DESIGN
Structured Packing

Flexipack (Koch)

Sulzer

Ceramic

ChE 4253 - Design I

DISTILLATION/ABSORPTION COLUMN TRAY DESIGN

Packing Height: Number of equilibrium stages x HETP (Height Equivalent to a


Theoretical Plate)
HETP: Typically a function of gas rate (ft/sec) and the packing, as well as the
mixture.
Packing Diameter: Similar graph to Fairs graph

ChE 4253 - Design I

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