In a previous paper, pressure drop, flooding and mass-transfer characteristics of a novel pilot-scale distillation column called spinning cone column (SCC) were presented. Here, we present the result of comparison of mass-transfer efficiencies of SCC and structured packing. Comparison of SCC and structured packing mass-transfer characteristics show that the gas and liquid-side height of transfe...

KATAPAK-S is a type of structured catalytic packing, which is used in reactive distillation processes. The dry pressure drop characteristic (the pressure drop in the absence of liquid flow) is of significant importance for the investigation of process hydrodynamics. In this paper, the dry pressure drop within the catalyst packed channels of KATAPAK-S has been investigated using Computational Fl...

While structured packing modules are known to be efficient for surface wetting and gas-liquid exchange in abiotic surface catalysis, this model study explores structured packing as a growth surface for catalytic biofilms. Microbial biofilms have been proposed as selfimmobilized and self-regenerating catalysts for the production of chemicals. A concern is that the complex and dynamic nature of b...

INTRODUCTION. What is the effect of maldistribution on the mass transfer efficiency of a distillation column containing structured packing?. The column of structured packing is considered to consist of a set of unit cells. Each pair of sheets gives a two-dimensional set of " elementary " cells:

A cryogenic pilot distillation column operating at total reflux is described. It was used to measure the pressure drop and flooding of various structured packings, first using pure nitrogen and then using an oxygen-argon mixture. By varying the pressure, the nitrogen system was used to characterize the capacity of each packing via Wallis plots. The oxygen-argon flooding data can be accurately p...