Intalox Metal Tower Packing

Figure 18. Intalox Metal Tower Packing. (By permission, Norton Chemical Process Products Corporation.)...

Norton Intalox Metal Tower Packing (IMTP )... 

Norton offers a new high performance system centered around an improved Intalox metal tower packing, including effective internals to provide the distribution and pressure drop consistent with the higher performance of the packing itself. 

Strigle presents typical separation efficiency ranges for Intalox metal tower packing, for systems with relative volatility not greater than 2.0. 

MTBE synthesis has been investigated both theoretically and experimentally [80, 98]. In this paper, we present some results for a pilot-scale RD column, with a catalytic section in the middle part. This section consists either of a packed bed of catalytically active rings (see [99]) or of catalytic packing MULTIPAK [31]. The rectifying and stripping sections are filled with Intalox Metal Tower Packing. The methanol is fed just above and the hydrocarbon feed just below the catalyst section. 

By experimentation with systems such as those listed in Table 7-1, the maximum operational capacity for Intalox Metal Tower Packing was determined. This capacity was expressed as a function of the flow parameter and system properties by Dolan and Strigle [18]. The flow parameter is a ratio of the square roots of the liquid kinetic energy to the vapor kinetic energy ... 

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