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A STUDY ON CHARACTERISTICS OF A MODERN STRUCTURED PACKING

Cho SY Lee YY Kim SJ

Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering, July 1995, 12(3), 313-319(7), 10.1007/BF02705762

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Abstract

The hydraulic characteristics including dry pressure drops, liquid holdups, flooding data, effective interfa-cial areas, and wet pressure drops of a modern structured packing (Sulzer BX) were studied using the air-water system. As a result, a predictive equation for the wet pressure drops of this structured packing at below the flooding point was derived for the design of the distillation column. The equation was tested with the experimental data obtained from the practical vacuum distillations. It was suggested that the equation is useful for the vacuum distillation under the flooding point, put the deviation is increased above the flooding point.

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Structured Packing Pressure Drops Flooding Data

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