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Influence of vapor entrainment on distillation tray efficiency at high pressures
Author(s) -
Hoek P. J.,
Zuiderweg F. J.
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
aiche journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.958
H-Index - 167
eISSN - 1547-5905
pISSN - 0001-1541
DOI - 10.1002/aic.690280403
Subject(s) - tray , entrainment (biomusicology) , distillation , vapor pressure , thermodynamics , chemistry , fractionation , mechanics , materials science , chromatography , mechanical engineering , engineering , physics , rhythm , acoustics
A recent publication of Fractionation Research Inc. (FRI) (Sakata and Yanagi, 1979) provides experimental evidence that tray efficiency initially rises with increasing pressure, reaches a maximum value, and then decreases again at very high pressures. It is shown in this paper that at these high pressures, significant amounts of vapor can be entrained with the downflowing liquid, e.g., abt. 50 mol per 100 mol liquid at 2,760 kPa. A new model is developed to determine the effect of vapor entrainment on tray efficiency. It is shown that the experimentally observed loss of tray efficiency corresponds with the entrainment rates found at high pressures.