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Title

Characterization of New Wire Gauze‐Structured Packing: Experimental Study.

Authors

Manh, Tran Dinh; Nam, Nguyen Dang; Babazadeh, Houman; Moradi, Rasoul

Abstract

Structured packings are usually employed for increasing the surface contact between vapor and liquid in the absorber and distillation of columns. Experimental investigations are performed to present a high‐capacity new wire gauze‐structured packing, namely, PACK‐1300XY, which is the combination of PACK‐1300X and PACK‐1300Y. The new PACK‐1300XY shows improved efficiency of separation and pressure drop. Comprehensive parametric investigations are carried out to calculate the efficiency of mass transfer and the wet/dry pressure drops under different operating conditions. The new wire gauze‐structured packing reduces wet and dry pressure drops by more than 10 % in comparison to PACK‐1300Y. In addition, PACK‐1300XY decreases the height equivalent to a theoretical plate by more than 5 % compared to PACK‐1300X.

Subjects

MASS transfer; WIRE; DISTILLATION

Publication

Chemical Engineering & Technology, 2020, Vol 43, Issue 12, p2469

ISSN

0930-7516

Publication type

Academic Journal

DOI

10.1002/ceat.202000092