Preliminary Program subject to change
02A00 Advances in Distillation Equipment & Applications
OverviewThis session will address current research and application of new tray and packing technologies.
Primary SponsorDistillation and Absorption (02a)

Chair

Waldo E. de Villiers
Shell Global Solutions (US) Inc.
3333 Highway 6 South
Houston, TX 77082
Phone Number: (281) 544-6074
Fax Number: (281) 544-8123
Email: waldo.devilliers@shell.com

CoChair

Izak Nieuwoudt
Director of R&D
Koch-Glitsch
4411 E 37th Street N
Wichita, KS 67220
Phone Number: 316-828-8558
Email: izak.nieuwoudt@kochglitsch.com
Effect of Pressure on Packed Column Distillation Efficiency
Frank Seibert, Separations Research Program, University of Texas at Austin, 10100 Burnet Road, Bldg 133/CEER, Austin, TX 78758 and James R. Fair, Chemical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, 10100 Burnet Road, Bldg 133/CEER, Austin, TX 78758
Rectifier Design for Ethanol Plants
Daniel R. Summers, Sulzer, 4019 South Jackson Avenue, Tulsa, OK 74107
Homogenous Azeotropic Pressure Swing Distillation – a Discussion of the Inverted and the Regular Batch-Process
Jens-Uwe Repke1, Andreas Klein2, David Bogle3 and Guenter Wozny1, (1)Technical University of Berlin, Strasse des 17. Juni 135 / KWT 9, Berlin, 10623, Germany, (2)Institute of Process and Plant Technology, Berlin, Germany, (3)Department of Chemical Engineering, Universtity College London, United Kingdom
Continuous Three Phase Distillation: a Process for Separating Thermally Instable Substances
Markus Ottenbacher, Institute of Thermodynamics and Thermal Process Engineering, University of Stuttgart, Pfaffenwaldring 9, Stuttgart, D-70569, Germany and Hans Hasse, University of Stuttgart, Pfaffenwaldring 9, Stuttgart, Germany
Design Considerations for High Liquid Rate Tray Applications
Mark W. Pilling, Sulzer Chemtech USA, Inc., 4019 S. Jackson Ave., Tulsa, OK 74107
An Analysis of Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics to Ddv Tray and the Determination of Its Performances
ZhiBing Zhang1, Y.C. Liang2, W.M. Meng2 and Z. Zhou2, (1)Separation Engineering Research Center (SERC), Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China, (2)Separation Engineering Research Center, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China
Microchannel Distillation of Jp-8 Jet Fuel for Sulfur Content Reduction
Feng Zheng, Victoria S. Stenkamp, Ward E. TeGrotenhuis, Xiwen Huang and David L. King, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99352

Separations Division