Reflux Distribution

Kunesh, John G. and A Shariat, Packing Efficiency Testing on a Commercial Scale with Good Reflux Distribution, Fractionation Research, Inc., presented at AIChE Spring National Meeting, Houston, Texas, March (1993). 

Unfortunately, packing does not redistribute liquid, or internal reflux. Unless the initial reflux distribution is good, the liquid flow distribution through the entire packed bed will be poor. Figure 7.1 shows a common orifice plate liquid distributor. Vapor flows up through the large chimneys, and liquid drains through the smaller distribution holes in the tray deck. 

FIGURE 8-6 External temperature survey proves poor reflux distribution. 

Sections 1, 2, 3, and 4 were now being used to fractionate between naphtha and hydrocracker feed. The loss in naphtha product to hydrocracker feed fell from 35% to 5%. The slurry oil pumparound draw temperature, while somewhat reduced, was still hot enough to maintain the fractionator heat balance. While this change did nothing to enhance top reflux distribution, it did bring all products back on spec without an FCCU shutdown. 

Heat-transfer coefficient Liquid loading sensitivity Structured packing Reflux distribution... 

Non-standard distillation equipment having up to 100 plates and operating at high reflux rates Is also used. The fractionation is very efficient and gives a precise distribution of boiling points. 

The (x, i )), values in Eq. (13-37) are minimum-reflux values, i.e., the overhead concentration that would be produced by the column operating at the minimum reflux with an infinite number of stages. When the light key and the heavy key are adjacent in relative volatihty and the specified spht between them is sharp or the relative volatilities of the other components are not close to those of the two keys, only the two keys will distribute at minimum reflux and the Xi D),n values are easily determined. This is often the case and is the only one considered here. Other cases in which some or all of the nonkey components distribute between distillate and bottom products are discussed in detail by Henley and Seader (op. cit.). 

The design of a plate tower for gas-absorption or gas-stripping operations involves many of the same principles employed in distillation calculations, such as the determination of the number of theoretical plates needed to achieve a specified composition change (see Sec. 13). Distillation differs from gas absorption in that it involves the separation of components based on the distribution of the various substances between a gas phase and a hquid phase when all the components are present in Doth phases. In distillation, the new phase is generated From the original feed mixture by vaporization or condensation of the volatile components, and the separation is achieved by introducing reflux to the top of the tower. 

Internal reflux is induced by means of externally cooled liquid pumparounds. A pumparound simply removes hot liquid from the tower, pumps it through a heat exchanger and then introduces this cooled liquid into the tower a few trays above. Use of pumparounds allows a better distribution of tower loadings than if all the heat were removed from the VPS using an overhead condenser. Four to six trays between sidestreams and two pumparounds are normally specified for a lube VPS. The three liquid sidestream products to be used as lube plant feed stocks are steam stripped to remove lighter boiling components which condense with tire sidestreams. 

A mixture of 4.9 grams of 5,6-dihydro-6-oxo-morphanthridine, 37 ml of phosphorus oxychloride and 1.5 ml of dimethylaniline Is heated for 3 hours at reflux. The viscous oil, obtained by evaporation of the reaction mixture in vacuo at 60°C, Is diluted with 20 ml of absolute dioxane and, after adding 30 ml of N-methylpiperazine, heated for 4 hours at reflux. The resulting clear solution Is evaporated in vacuo at 60°C to dryness. The residue is distributed between ether and ammonia water. The ethereal solution is separated, washed with water and then extracted with 1 N acetic acid. The acetic acid extract is mixed with ammonia water and then extracted with ether. The ethereal solution is washed with water, dried over sodium sulfate, filtered through alumina and evaporated. 

Liquid Distribution Feed, Side Streams, Reflux... 

For distributors of any design, including the PAN, it is important to filter the feed or reflux liquid entering tlie distributor to reduce the possibilities of plugging of tlic orifice holes. Otherwise, the landom plugging will cause non-uniform distribution onto the packing below. It is important to avoid leakage around the risers because this can destroy the liquid distiibution pattern [131]. 

Heavy cycle oil, heavy naphtha, and other circulating side pumparound reflux streams are used to remove heat from the fractionator. They supply reboil heat to the gas plant and generate steam. The amount of heat removed at any pumparound point is set to distribute vapor and liquid loads evenly throughout the column and to provide the necessary internal reflux. 

The active species are generated after refluxing the pristine CNT in HNO3 [137, 138]. Other oxidation strategies can be implemented for tuning the type and density of the oxidized catalytic functions. Resasco [139] pointed out that these results open up an avenue for tuning the density and distribution of C=0 pairs, in particular with controlled chirahties. 

Pt/Pd bimetallic nanoparticles can be prepared by refluxing the alcohol/water (1 1, v/v) solution of palla-dium(II) chloride and hexachloroplatinic(IV) acid in the presence of poly(A-vinyl-2-pyrrolidone) (PVP) at ca. 95 °C for Ih [15,16,48]. The resulting Pd/Pt nanoparticles have a Pt-core/Pd-shell structure with a narrow size distribution and the dispersion is stable against aggregation for several years. The core/shell structure was confirmed by the technique of EAXFS. Composition of Pt/Pd nanoparticles can be controlled by the initially feed amount of two different metal ions, i.e., in this case one... 

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