Final calculation for designing packed distillation
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I am working on simulating and optimizing packed tower distillation units, and I’m ready to carry out the final calculations. I would like to know whether the steps for these final calculations in packed tower distillation are similar to those in plate towers. It would be great if you could recommend some books or examples; I’ve looked at some reference materials, but they only cover design and optimization, without any examples of final calculations；
The calculation for packed towers is the same as that for tray towers. I don’t have any examples available right now. It’s similar to design; the key is setting the speckle factor.
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Thank you. I used to think they were different
What’s different is that the pressure drop in a packed tower is significantly lower than that in a plate tower. Moreover, when designing a packed tower, the number of mass transfer units is taken into consideration, while for plate towers it is the number of theoretical plates; there is a slight difference between the two. In systems with high relative volatility, special attention should be paid to this
Textbooks on principles of chemical engineering in universities... Guide to modern packed tower technology