 A new and applicable method to calculate mass and heat transfer coefficients and efficiency of industrial distillation columns containing structured packingsHamidreza Sadeghifar and Ali Akbar Safe Kordi Energy, 2011, vol. 36, issue 3, 1415-1423 Abstract: Most of the methods developed for efficiency estimation of distillation columns were based on the empirical mass transfer and hydraulic relations correlated to laboratory data. Therefore, these methods cannot estimate efficiency of industrial columns with sufficient accuracy. In this paper, a new and applicable method was developed for calculation of efficiency (and mass and heat transfer coefficients) of distillation columns containing structured packings. This method has potential advantages; e.g., it can calculate efficiency without using any empirical mass transfer and hydraulic correlations and models, and without the need to estimate the operational and hydraulic parameters of column. Therefore, it will be free of errors, limitations, and complexities of such empirical items. In addition, precision of the method does not decrease with increasing complexity of operating conditions and design parameters of column. The method can be used for efficiency calculation of any structured packing, including new ones, in distillation columns. Keywords: Efficiency; Distillation; Structured packing; Mass transfer (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:energy:v:36:y:2011:i:3:p:1415-1423 DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2011.01.031 Access Statistics for this article Energy is currently edited by Henrik Lund and Mark J. Kaiser More articles in Energy from Elsevier |
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