2018 Spring Meeting and 14th Global Congress on Process Safety

Session: Advances in Distillation Technology I

New ideas are providing insight to the way distillation is being performed today. Hardware improvements, control aspects, CFD, theoretical correlations and diagnostic tools are but a few topics in this session and the next one.

Chair

Co-Chair

Andrew W. Sloley, Advisian (WorleyParsons Group)

Presentations

12:00 AM

Numerical Simulation of Two-Phase Flow and Interfacial Species Transfer in Structured Packings
Simon Hill, Thomas Acher, Rainer Hoffmann, Johann Ferstl, Sebastian Rehfeldt, Harald Klein

08:32 AM

(172a) Non-Ideal Two-Phase Flow on Large Diameter Trays: The Stagnant Regions Model versus FRI Experiment
Simon Chambers, Kenneth McCarley

09:07 AM

(172b) Evolution of Random Packing Performance with a Focus on Geometry
Kenneth McCarley, Chao Wang, Anand Vennavelli, Tony Cai

09:42 AM

(172c) Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) Simulations of Multiphase Flow through Representative Elementary Units (REU) of Structured Packing
Trien (Mikey) Phan, R. Bruce Eldridge

10:32 AM

(172d) Evidence for the Need of Probability Density Function Representations of Liquid-Side Mass Transfer Rate Coefficients for Absorption Modeling in Structured Packings
John Roesler, Pascal Alix, Laszlo Hegely, Arslan Muhammad

11:07 AM

(172e) Distillation Control: Practical Aspects
Sigifredo Nino

11:42 AM

(172f) Packed Tower Separation Efficiency Problem Diagnosed Using Gamma Scanning Technology
Lowell Pless, Hailey Dunsworth, Chet Davidson