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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