Learn Industrial Distillation from Industry Expert

What you will get from this course?

• This course is specially designed by global industry experts to give you one-stop solutions to learn everything you need to know about industrial distillation.
• Complete Understanding of Design, Operation, Troubleshooting, and Optimization of the industrial distillation column.
• Everything you need to know about distillation.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

1.Basic Concept

• Fundamental of vapor-liquid equilibrium
• Distillation system overview

2.Distillation column internals

• Plate column and pack column internals

3.Operation of distillation column

• Working and visualization inside the distillation column
• Capacity diagram
• Start-up of distillation column

4.Troubleshooting

• Operational and hydraulic constraints of distillation column

5.Optimization and Energy savings

• How to increase the capacity of the Distillation column?
• How to reduce energy costs?

6.Design and simulation

• Multicomponent distillation column design by Aspen plus simulation
• Industrial case studies

The uniqueness of this course

• Build a complete understanding of industrial distillation
• Well curated step-by-step procedure from scratch.
• Starts with basic vapor-liquid equilibrium concept,
• Deep drive to the internals of distillation column through videos and animations.
• Take you through details of distillation column operation and troubleshooting
• Enrich you about the practical ways to increase the capacity of the distillation column for profit maximization.
• Guide you on how to save energy in the distillation column.
• Show you how to design multicomponent distillation column from scratch by Aspen plus software
• Enrich you with real-life case studies

Outline of course content

Fundamental of Vapour -liquid equilibrium.

• Vapour pressure
• Vapour pressure curve
• Binary VLE phase diagram
• XY diagram
• Txy diagram
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• Gas law and distillation curve
• Dalton’s law of partial pressure.
• Equilibrium curve
• Ideal gas law
• Ideal and Non-ideal system

Distillation system overview

• Feed system
• Preheat system
• Distillation column
• Condenser, Reboiler
• Overhead and Bottom system

Insights of Distillation column

• How sieve tray works
• External and internal reflux
• Bubble cap tray
• Packed column
• Temperature control
• Operating parameters

Distillation column internals

• Distillation column types
• Main components of distillation column
• Shell
• Tray
• Packing
• Reboiler
• Condenser
• Reflux drum
• Packing support
• Vortex breaker
• Bottom connector
• Vapor outlet
• Demister pad

Tray column

• Inlet weir, Bubbling area, Downcomer
• Tray layout
• Detailed working principle, advantages of
• Valve tray,
• bubble cap tray,
• sieve tray,
• special type of tray
• High-pressure tray
• Advantages and example of proprietary high-performance trays use in industry.

Parameters for tray design

• Cost
• Operating range
• Pressure drops
• Maintenance
• Comparison of different tray design based on the above factors

Plate column overview

• Working principle of Sieve tray, bubble cap tray.

Animation of Inner working of Sieve tray, Valve tray, Bubble cap tray

Packed column

• Packed distillation column overview
• Packed distillation column classification
• Packed column internals
•         Shell
•         Packing
•         Heat balance
•         Packing support
•        Bed limiter
•        Liquid distributor

Animation and working of

• Random packing
• Structured packing
• Trough distributor
• Packing support

Operational and hydraulic constraints of distillation column

• Operating limit and feasible region of distribution column
• Flooding,
• Jet flood
• Weir loading
• Downcomer flood
• Downcomer backup
• Downcomer entrance velocity
• Weep

Capacity diagram

• The boundary of a capacity diagram
• Capacity limitation of distillation column

Vapour handling limitations

• Flow regimes
• Spray and Forth
• Entrainment
• Tray flooding
• Ultimate capacity

Liquid handling limitation

• Downcomer flood
• Downcomer residing time
• Down comer inlet velocity
• Weir liquid loading
• Down comer sizing criteria

Animation of

• Flooding
• Entrainment
• Weeping in a distillation column

Other limitation and considerations

• Weeping
• Dumping
• Tray turndown
• Foaming

Capacity diagram and feasibility region

• Industrial Case study to develop a capacity diagram
• Insights from the capacity diagram
• How capacity diagram can be used in profit maximization

Heat and material balance

Distillation start-up procedure

Troubleshooting of distillation column

• Flooding
• Feed composition changes
• Puking
• Overloading
• Equipment failure
• Jet flooding
• Local flooding

Optimization of running distillation column

• Strategies:
• Increase feed
• Reduce reflux
• Exploit variation

How to increase the capacity of the Distillation column

• Strategies to maximize profit from the distillation column

Optimization and Energy savings in the distillation column

• Reflux optimization
• Feed tray location optimization
• Feed tray pre-heating
• Side re-boiler optimization
• Energy saving in the distillation column

Distillation column design and optimization by Aspen plus software

• Introduction to process simulation
• Run the first Aspen simulation and know Aspen simulator features
• How to choose property analysis method
• Property evaluation of pure component, binary and ternary system (Case studies)
• Distillation boundaries and residue curves
• Overview of different distillation modules in Aspen
• Distillation column design by Aspen
• Six industrial case studies
• Optimum feed tray location
• Overview of Aspen Radfrac module
• Case study of Benzeze-Toluene distillation

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