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Distillation Column Design & Operations

By chemklub Categories: Jan 2023
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About Course

Today’s petroleum refining, petrochemical, chemical, and process industries all use distillation columns of various designs and applications. This course will teach you complete understanding of Design, Operation, Troubleshooting, and Optimization of the industrial distillation column. Everything you need to know about the construction and operation of distilling columns. This knowledge is essential for the effective execution of your plant.

What Will You Learn?

  • Full distillation column design and operations course with case studies.
  • Detail understanding of each distillation column.
  • Discuss essential distillation fundamentals such as vapor liquid equilibrium, stages, and transfer units.
  • Describe a variety of distillation practice designs including general column design, tray column design, packed column design.
  • Employ troubleshooting techniques.
  • Our tutors are industrial working professionals.
  • Course Affordable to students & Professionals

Course Content

Introduction to Distillation Unit Operation
Fundamental of vapor-liquid equilibrium Volatility of pure components : boiling point, vapor pressure Concept of Sensible and Latent Heat Behavior of mixtures in distillation : dew and bubble points, vaporization curves, total/partial condensation and vaporization, liquid-vapor separation and distribution of components according to their volatility Relation between temperature, pressure and composition of distillate

  • 1.Introduction to distillation column
    01:19:27

Distillation column internals
Column Internals, Types of Packing & Trays. Different types of contacting systems for the active area : bubble caps, fixed or floating valves Liquid or vapor distributors, collectors and redistributors Separating power : number of stages, liquid and vapor traffics, feed inlet location Material balance of the column: concepts of cut point, separation quality and fractionation capability Heat balance : condenser and reboiler duties, Reflux and Boil-up ratios and industrial configurations

Distillation Column Designing
Tray Design, Pressure drop calculations, Efficiency calculations, mcCabe Thiele method, Column Performance

Condenser & Reboilers
Different types of condensers. Distilling column overhead operations. Different types of Re boiler's & their operation

Distillation Column Controlling
Operating parameters of a distillation column (Pressure, Temperature, Flow rates, Reflux Ratio Column pressure Controlling : pressure control and pressure profile along the column Column Temperature Controllers Different controller configurations used in industry, Instrumentation and process control loops around the column

Distillation Column Troubleshooting
Flooding, Weeping, Entrainments etc. concepts with real industrial examples Optimizing column performance

Case Studies
Column internal sizing using Aspen Plus/HYSYS

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