Stripping section experimental profiles

Mulopo, J.L., et al.. Experimental simulation of distillation column concentration profiles using a batch apparatus Columns stripping section. Chemical Engineering Science, 2005, 60(24) 6815 6823. 

The preceding section deals with the experimental validation of column profiles in rectifying CSs. However, it is just as important to be able to model stripping sections, as these operating conditions may shift topology inside the MBT in ways that... 

This superimposition is quite a remarkable result. It implies that at some operating conditions and initial compositions, a CS will have its hottest temperature at the top of the CS, thereby creating an inverse temperature profile (remember, in conventional simple columns the coldest temperature is at the top). While an inverse temperature profile is not necessarily desired in simple columns, it may very well be a feasible mode of operation in complex columns that have CSs that are neither rectifying nor stripping CSs found in simple columns. This result of an inverse temperature profile in a CS has further been validated experimentally, and the reader is referred to Section 4.5.3 for the details. 

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