Preliminary Program subject to change
T8003 Standard and High-Capacity Trays : Continuing the Heritage of Kunesh, Sakata and Zuiderweg
OverviewVarious tray designs and optimizations.
Primary SponsorTopical 8: Distillation Topical (T8)
Co-Sponsor(s)Fuels and Petrochemicals Division (16)

Chair

Henry Z. Kister
Senior Fellow and Director of Fractionation Technology
Fluor Corporation
3 Polaris Way
Aliso Viejo, CA 92698
Phone Number: 949-349-4679
Email: henry.kister@fluor.com

CoChair

Michael D. Pritchett
Consultant
Consultant
331 Melrose Drive
Suite 121
Richardson, TX 75080
Phone Number: 972-437-9136
Fax Number: 972-437-5443
Email: mpritchett@attglobal.net
Introductory Remarks
Tribute to Mich Sakata
The Effect of Hole Size on Sieve Tray Performance
Mitch Sakata, T. Yanagi, D.W. King, Tony Cai and G.X. Chen, Fractionation Research, Inc., P.O. Box 2108, Stillwater, OK 74076
High Capacity Tray Revamp of a C2 Splitter
Daniel R. Summers, Sulzer, 4019 South Jackson Avenue, Tulsa, OK 74107, Andre Bernard, NOVA Chemicals (Canada) Ltd., 785 Petrolia Line, Corunna, ON N0N 1G0, Canada and Waldo E. De Villiers, Shell Global Solutions (US) Inc., 3333 Highway 6 South, Houston, TX 77082
Increasing the Capacity and Lowering the Energy Consumption of a Paraffin Fractionation Tower
Greg Spencer, Koch-Glitsch, UK, Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom and Izak Nieuwoudt, Koch-Glitsch, 4411 E 37th Street N, Wichita, KS 67220
The Effect of Open Area on Sieve Tray Performance
A. Shariat1, Mitch Sakata2, T. Yanagi3, Tony Cai1 and G.X. Chen1, (1)Fractionation Research, Inc., P.O. Box 2108, Stillwater, OK 74076, (2)Deceased, (3)WorleyParsons, 181 West Huntington Drive, Monrovia, CA 91016
Break
Hydraulic Investigations for the Increase of Capacity of Distillation Trays
Dr. Michael Jödecke, Dr. Friese and Dr. G. Schuch, Process Engineering, BASF, BASF Aktiengesellschaft, GCT/C - L540, D-67056, Ludwigshafen, Germany
SimulFlow™ Device - Capacity Beyond System Limit
Ping Xu1, Brian Nowak1, Kevin Richardson1 and Bob Miller2, (1)UOP LLC, 175 E. Park Drive, Tonawanda, NY 14051-0986, (2)UOP LLC, 13105 Northwest Freeway Suite 600, Houston, TX 77040-6312
Improving Efficiency of Multiple Downcomer Tray Performance by Various Tray Structure Modifications
Kejian Yao, Lianghua Wang, Lingyu Zhu and Xiaomei Yu, College of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Zhejiang University of Technology, Zhaohui Liuqu, Xiacheng District, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 310014, China
Two-Phase Flows in Tray Downcomers - Backmixing and Chocking Tests
Xiaomei Yu, Lingyu Zhu and Kejian Yao, College of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Zhejiang University of Technology, Zhaohui Liuqu, Xiacheng District, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 310014, China
Concluding Remarks

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