The successful revamp of a conventional tray Xylenes Distillation Column (3800 mm / 4300 mm diameter) is described. The column takes a xylene side-stream from reformate to feed an aromatics plant to make higher value products. Changing the column configuration to a Dividing Wall Column (DWC) resulted in improved product purity and significant energy savings. The project cycle is detailed includ...

Punching shear capacity is a key factor for governing the collapsed form of slabs. This fragile failure that occurs at the slab-column connection is called punching shear failure and has been of concern for the engineers. The most common practice in evaluating the punching strength of the concrete slabs is to use the empirical expressions available in different building design codes. The estima...

Abstract Divided‐wall column (DWC) is an intensified separation process and so far developing a simple procedure for designing these units has been challenging. In this work, the concept of molecular tracking integrated with conventional methods to build easy‐to‐use methodology DWCs multicomponent separations. Application proposed approach highlighted through several three‐ four‐component mixtu...