A new, ultracapacity tray for distillation columns

Chemical Engineering Research and Design

Volumn 77, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 619-626

  Fair, J R ^a   Trutna, W R ^a   Seibert, A F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Debottlenecking; Distillation; Gas liquid systems; Retro fitting; Trays

Indexed keywords

DISTILLATION; EQUIPMENT TESTING; FLOW OF FLUIDS; GASES; LIQUIDS; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RETROFITTING;

CROSSFLOW DISTILLATION TRAY; DEBOTTLENECKING; GAS FLOW CAPACITY; GAS LIQUID SYSTEMS; MECHANISTIC MODEL;

DISTILLATION COLUMNS;

DISTILLATION COLUMN; EFFICIENCY; TRAY;

EID: 0033237980     PISSN: 02638762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1205/026387699526665     Document Type: Article

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