Sulzer BX packing

KOCH - SULZER BX PACKING FLOOD PRESSURE DROP... 

Values of 0, d, e, and C6, where available, and the range of data used for deriving the correlation, are listed in Table 8.1. For the Sulzer BX packing, data from several systems were used in the correlation deviation, but for corrugated-sheet packings, only air-wator data were used. 

Gorak (1991) conducted a number of distillation experiments with the system acetone(l)-methanol(2)-2-propanol(3)-water(4) in a column of 0.1-m internal diameter and height 0.8 m fitted with Sulzer BX structured packing. The characteristics of Sulzer BX packing are (Bravo et al., 1985). 

How would the performance of the ethylbenzene-styrene column in Example 14.3.3 differ if the column were filled with (a) 50-mm metallic Pall rings, (b) Sulzer BX packing, and (c) Sieve trays. 

During scaleup, the user must judge whether tiie load effect is vapor- or liquid-related, or select the more conservative of those. (Don-sider a service to be designed for a C-fhctor of 0.2 ft/s and a liquid rate of 15 using the Koch-Sulzer BX packing. Figure 11.2a sug-... 

The hydraulic operation of structured packings with countercurrent gas and liquid flows is somewhat different than that of random dumped packings. The wire-gauze type is wetted by capillary action, so that the entire geometric surface area becomes available for mass transfer at low liquid flow rates. Thus, Sulzer BX packing was found to have 2 A times the static liquid holdup of Flexipac 2 or Gempak 2A sheet metal types of structured packings [14]. However, once the surface is completely wetted, capillary action has only a small effect as the liquid rate increases. 

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